The complete online text of Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft.

Perhaps the most notorious playwright of the eighteenth century's closing decade, Thomas Holcroft was a professional writer in the broadest sense: a prolific translator, journalist, novelist, and critic, whose opinions of the theater were frequently cons...

Of working-class origins, Thomas Holcroft was one of many self-educated plebeian writers of his time who promoted social, cultural, and political reform. He wrote little of a directly polemical or theoretical nature, but he had a comprehensive vision of...

Thomas Holcroft has been called the first revolutionary novelist in English, but at his best he is also one of the few really original and readable storytellers of the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Anna St. Ives (1792) and The Adventures of Hug...

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