Holcroft

"Holcroft" -- Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809), a miscellaneous writer, who is best known by his play "The Road to Ruin."

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

It is hard to speak of one's self, &c. Holcroft had finished his life when I wrote to you, and Hazlitt has since finished his life -- I do not mean his own life, but he has finished a life of Holcroft, which is going to press.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

My wife's cousin, Mrs. Mumpson -- "At the mention of this name Holcroft gave a slight start, feeling something like a cold chill run down his back.

He Fell in Love with His Wife Edward Payson Roe 1863

"Holcroft," he remarked, "in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation which I believe I may say is general amongst us.

Anna the Adventuress 1906

Some years later the essayist Charles Lamb remarked in a letter to Thomas Manning dated February 26, 1808, that his friend the dramatist Thomas Holcroft “grinned like a Cheshire cat.”

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Some years later the essayist Charles Lamb remarked in a letter to Thomas Manning dated February 26, 1808, that his friend the dramatist Thomas Holcroft “grinned like a Cheshire cat.”

The Cheshire cat again 2009

Another project that came his way was the work that was published as Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft, a compilation of autobiographical writing by the recently deceased playwright, novelist, and radical political activist, together with additional material by Hazlitt himself.

March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Interestingly Holcroft was himself responding to a humorous remark about the cat.

The Cheshire cat again 2009

Another project that came his way was the work that was published as Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft, a compilation of autobiographical writing by the recently deceased playwright, novelist, and radical political activist, together with additional material by Hazlitt himself.

william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Interestingly Holcroft was himself responding to a humorous remark about the cat.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009