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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 c...
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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 crit...
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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 the...
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In the following excerpt, Colby provides an overview of Holcroft's writings, supplementing Hazlitt's biography with newly available information.
It seems that the hour has come for a ful...
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In the following excerpt, Colby surveys Holcroft's life and works.
Tom Moore once said that he rated the autobiographies of Holcroft and of Gifford “the two most interesting specimens in...
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In the following essay, which originally appeared in the March 1936 issue of ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, Stallbaumer traces Holcroft's development as a dramatist, outlining the ...
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In the essay below, Teissedou notes evidence of Holcroft's revolutionary activities and views in his life and works.
The mere mention of English radicalism immediately brings to one's mi...
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In the following essay, Zall summarizes Holcroft's career, highlighting his high level of productivity and many hardships.
Hazlitt edited his memoirs and more recently the Oxford Press exhumed ...
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In the excerpt below, Rosenblum traces the development of Holcroft as a novelist and argues that he deserves recognition for his experimental work in the novel, particularly in Anna St. Ives, Hugh Tre...
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Thomas Holcroft
Critical Essay by Elbridge Colby
