Robinson, Isabella Hamilton. “Lines Addressed to a Miniature”. Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, Vol.
16
, p. 89. Isabella Hamilton Robinson
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Standard Name: Robinson, Isabella Hamilton
Birth Name: Isabella Hamilton Walker
Used Form: Isabella Hamilton Dansey
's diary acquired notoriety after it was found to contain details of her relationship with a younger, married doctor and after it was made public in the
(at a moment when divorce law was undergoing reform). The court case turned on the question whether these details were cold fact, imaginative exaggeration, or pure invention. The diary was later destroyed.
wrote and even published a few other texts, poetry and perhaps essays, but these remain obscure, while the diary is the focus of
's Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace, 2012.
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