Thomas Holcroft

(1745-1809)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809 NRA: Holcroft Thomas (1745-1809) dramatist and author DNB: Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809), writer LBT ID: ThHolcr1809 VIAF ID: 56644486 LOC ID: n78090495	B/BAP: 1745-12-10 DIED: 1809-03-23
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English playwright and novelist; a friend of William Godwin indicted for treason in 1794; author of The Road to Ruin (1792). His Memoirs (1816) were completed by William Hazlitt.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Holcroft: Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 24 July 1788 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 27 July 1792 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, August 1792 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 16 August 1792 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 19 July 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 18 October 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 2 November 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, [1794] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 12 January 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 21 October 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Maria Reveley [Gisborne] to William Godwin, 27 October 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Samuel Parr to William Godwin, 10 November 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Abthorpe Cooper to William Godwin, 20 January 1795 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 13 January 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin, 6 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin, 25 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to George Tuthill, 13 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 15 August 1798 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 13 September 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 9 James Ballantyne to William Godwin, 14 November 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Mountcashel to William Godwin, 21 February 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 24 September 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Hazlitt to William Hazlitt sen.; 16 October 1802 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 19 February 1803 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Richard Duppa, 14 December 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 19 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb, May 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 10 May 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 5 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Hazlitt to William Godwin, [1809?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 28 March 1809 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [7 June 1809] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Godwin to Louisa Holcroft [Kenney], [draft; January? 1810] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to Josiah Wedgwood, [1815?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 25 December 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray, 1816 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 53 Lord Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey, “Memoir: School Recollections,” 10 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Sydney Smith to Catharine Amelia Smith, 5 May 1826 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: X Ch. V. 1797 Ch. X. 1804 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XI Found 1: ¶ 6 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1826 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. III 1795-98 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. VI 1792-1803 Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. VIII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 19 Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 11 Ch. XX Found 2: ¶ 46 ¶ n1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 44 Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 6: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 52 ¶ 57 ¶ 58 ¶ 59 Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 26: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 ¶ 20 ¶ 25 ¶ 28 ¶ 30 ¶ 32 ¶ 33 ¶ 41 ¶ 8 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Ch. IV. 1793 Found 1: ¶ 19 Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 6: ¶ 15 ¶ 51 ¶ 57 ¶ 70 ¶ 83 ¶ 85 Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 4: ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 Ch. IX. 1797 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 23 Ch. X. 1797 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 21 Ch. XII. 1799 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 18 Ch. XIII. 1800 Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 31 Ch. II. 1800 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Ch. III. 1800 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Found 2: ¶ 23 ¶ 46 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. VI. 1804-1806 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1802 Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 6 Letters: 1803 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1806 Found 4: ¶ 5 ¶ 2 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 Letters: 1808 Letters: 1809 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 9 Letters: 1810 Letters: 1815 Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 13 Letters: 1831 Found 1: ¶ 3 Appendix II Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 1