Mary Robinson, scandalous woman and Romantic poet, was also a forceful and emotional, radical writer in many other genres: novels, scholarship, memoirs, drama, periodical essays, and translation. During the last two years of her life her level of productivity was almost frenetic, and the quality of her writing was adversely affected.
Milestones
Almost certainly 27 November 1757 Mary Darby (later MR) was born "during a tempestuous night,"
at the
Minster House,
College Green,
Bristol: two years earlier than the date given by her published memoirs and her gravestone.
Summer 1775 MR published
Poems, some of them written long before.
26 December 1800 MR died in her daughter's cottage at
Englefield Green, of water on the lungs.
1806 MR's
Poetical Works were posthumously published, edited by her daughter
Maria Elizabeth.
