Record Number: 4231

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you promis?d much. Remember! Keep your word. T. H.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Holcroft

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

10 Dec 1745

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Father was a shoe maker

Occupation:

Dramatists and miscellaneous writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Amelia Opie

Title:

Adelaide

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Play script

Publication Details

Never published

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4231

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Eliot McGregor

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend

Place of Publication:

Wisconsin

Date of Publication:

1933

Vol:

n/a

Page:

13

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Margaret Eliot McGregor, Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend, (Wisconsin, 1933), p. 13, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4231, accessed: 28 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None