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Holcroft, Thomas
Holcroft, Thomas (1745–1809), successively stable-boy, shoemaker, actor, and author. His varied and energetic life is described in his Memoirs (edited and completed by his friend Hazlitt), which contain early reminiscences of Foote and the aged Macklin, and later accounts of radical associates such as Godwin and Tooke. He was indicted for high treason in 1794, and spent eight weeks in Newgate before being discharged. He wrote a number of sentimental plays, of which the best-known was The Road to Ruin (1792): also several novels, including Anna St Ives (1792) and The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794), both of them influenced by Godwin's radical philosophy.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Holcroft, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Holcroft, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HolcroftThomas.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Holcroft, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HolcroftThomas.html |
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