Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than...
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...
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...
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...
Charles T. Holcroft incorporated Holcroft and Company in the year 1916 in Detroit, Mich., to build open-hearth melting furnaces, annealing furnaces, and core ovens. Holcroft was an early pioneer in development of atmosphere-type furnaces. Holcroft moved to the current facility in Livonia, Mich., in...
AFC-Holcroft is committed to providing innovative thermal processing equipment and technology that is "Engineered for Performance" and total customer satisfaction. Its process and equipment knowledge stems from more than 225 years of collective experience of the firms that make up the company: Atmosphere Furnace...
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 way in which he was shaped by the popular demand for sentimentality.
