Anna St. Ives

Thomas Holcroft was an 18th century English playwright. Holcroft worked as a stable boy and was self taught. After marrying he became a teacher in a small school. He then became a prompter in the Dublin Theater and did a little acting. Anna St. Ives was the first British Jacobin novel, published in 1792. Anna is the respectable daughter of a baronet. She loves Frank the son of her father's steward. Anna feels she cannot love this man because her peers would not understand her loving him. They wo