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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Thomas Holcroft
