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Thomas Holcroft

 

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Thomas Holcroft : Man of Ten Thousand, The

'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousand, but such stuff! Demme hey, humph."'

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Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives

'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : The life of Thomas Holcroft

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Adventures of Hugh Trevor, The

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      

  

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft

'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands, to Paris

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel

'Draw and read Bryan Perdue'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel

'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel

'Read Anna St Ives'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives: a novel

'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : Anna St Ives

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & utility — yet have I hitherto seen very few that really are so. in his Anna St Ives Holcroft has succeeded — but his Hugh Trevor is outrageously caricatured. Things as they are — is likewise a very faulty novel, & one which shews William Godwin to be little acquainted with human characters. I have planned a work to delineate existing systems & their consequent vices & misery, & hope to do some good by it if I have ever leisure to fill up the outlines.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

Thomas Holcroft : The Adventures of Hugh Trevor

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & utility — yet have I hitherto seen very few that really are so. in his Anna St Ives Holcroft has succeeded — but his Hugh Trevor is outrageously caricatured. Things as they are — is likewise a very faulty novel, & one which shews William Godwin to be little acquainted with human characters. I have planned a work to delineate existing systems & their consequent vices & misery, & hope to do some good by it if I have ever leisure to fill up the outlines.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

?Thomas ?Holcroft : Life [?of Thomas Holcroft]

Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady Calantha Limb." The authoress, actuated by a holy zeal, says in her preface that she is resolved to turn me into ridicule. She chooses an easy task -- too easy, I fear -- yet fails, and makes a most blundering business. Wit's razor's edge she has not, but an unkind tongue to make up for it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

 

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