Thomas Monro (writer)

Life

Works

• Olla Podrida, a Periodical Work, comprising forty-eight weekly numbers, Oxford, 1787; 2nd edit. London, 1788; reprinted in Robert Lynam's edition of the British Essayists, vol. xxviii.. Monro set it up and ran it with the help of Oxford men: George Horne, Henry Headley, Henry Kett, Charles Gower, Philip Bracebridge Homer, and Alexander Crowcher Schomberg in particular.
• Essays on various Subjects, London, 1790.
• Alciphron's Epistles; in which are described the Domestic Manners, the Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now first translated from the Greek, London, 1791, by Monro and William Beloe.
• Modern Britons, and Spring in London, London, 1792.
• Philoctetes in Lemnos. A Drama in three acts. To which is prefixed A Greenroom Scene, exhibiting a Sketch of the present Theatrical Taste: inscribed with due Deference to the Managers of Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres by their humble servant, Oxoniensis, London, 1795.