Mary Robinson

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Standard Name: Robinson, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Darby
Married Name: Mrs Mary Robinson
Nickname: Perdita
Pseudonym: A Friend to Humanity
Pseudonym: Miss Randall
Pseudonym: Anne Frances Randall
Pseudonym: Laura
Pseudonym: Laura-Maria
Pseudonym: Julia
Pseudonym: Daphne
Pseudonym: Oberon
Pseudonym: Echo
Pseudonym: Louisa
Pseudonym: Tabitha Bramble
Indexed Name: Mrs Thomas Robinson
MR , 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.

Connections

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Travel Eliza Fenwick
By the time of her statement about separating herself, EF had left London with her children to stay with friends, first at New Park near Axminster in Devon, then for the month of August...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
It is not clear how much of Bellamy's completed novel ESG actually wrote: as much as the whole of volume three may be hers. Her preface echoes Samuel Johnson when it says the history of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Cowley
They included HC 's attack on Mary Robinson in a poem entitled On Della Crusca.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Henrietta Battier
HB 's mock epithalamium is a close parody of Dryden 's Alexander's Feast, and had the ROYAL
Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street.
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on her title-page printed upside-down. She brings together in her sights the prince as an individual...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She praises Mary Robinson (Our Perdita) both in literary terms for her works of genius
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington.
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and in moral terms for the resilience with which she worked for her child (housework as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Theodora Benson
In 1951 TB returned to partnership with Bentley though not with Askwith in a different treatment of famous people, London Immortals in Allan Wingate 's The Londoners' Library series. This goes through London street by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Dacre
Her titles provide a brief guide to romantic sensibility: the macabre (Death and the Lady, The Skeleton Priest, and The Dying Lover, written for a friend whose amiable young man
Dacre, Charlotte. Hours of Solitude. Printed by D. N. Shury, for Hughes and Ridgeway.
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Textual Production Leah Sumbel
It is often said (for instance by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) that Topham's main aim in this venture was to boost her career. The World was known for featuring personal attacks on...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
For her first few years of appearing there, AJV was almost the only woman in the longish list of poetry contributors to the European Magazine (although over the magazine's lifetime the eleven women who published...
Textual Production Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson . The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
It appeared in two different editions put out this year through the different publishers T. Hookham , and Debrett . The Debrett edition lists the price, one shilling and sixpence, on the title-page.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
Goethe's novel...
Textual Production Helen Craik
This appeared in four volumes from the Minerva Press . Its title seems to be the root source of scholarly confusion of HC with Catherine Cuthbertson . HC was clearly familiar with Helen Maria Williams
Textual Production Sarah Green
SG published anonymously, with Crosby , a two-volume roman à clef entitled The Private History of the Court of England, one of whose topics is the career of the writer Mary Robinson .
Scholar...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...

Timeline

June 1787: Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine...

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June 1787

Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine and Impartial Review, which continued with variations in subtitle until December 1792.

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.

June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...

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June 1793

An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney , put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.

By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

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By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.

24 November 1800: The Morning Post printed Coleridge's love-lyric...

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24 November 1800

The Morning Post printed Coleridge 's love-lyricAlcaeus to Sappho, which he had sent in about six weeks earlier and which was probably addressed to Mary Robinson .

1827: Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both...

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1827

Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both Charlotte Charke and Mary Robinson in its series entitled Autobiography. A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives ever published.

Texts

Robinson, Mary. Angelina. Printed for the author and sold by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Captivity. A Poem; and, Celadon and Julia. A Tale. T. Becket, 1777.
Robinson, Mary. Hubert de Sevrac. Printed for the author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Impartial Reflections on the Present Situation of the Queen of France. John Bell, 1791.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
Robinson, Mary. Letter about visitors at Englefield Green to Samuel Jackson Pratt.
Robinson, Mary. Letter to Samuel Jackson Pratt, 31 August 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Lyrical Tales. Prionted by Biggs and Cottle for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems. Editor Pascoe, Judith, Broadview, 2000.
Robinson, Mary. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson. Editor Robinson, Maria Elizabeth, R. Phillips, 1801.
Robinson, Mary. Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. J. Bell, 1792.
Robinson, Mary. Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France. Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son and sold by J. Evans and T. Becket, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Ode to the Harp of the Late Accomplished and Amiable Louisa Hanway. John Bell, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
Hager, Giuseppe. Picture of Palermo. Translator Robinson, Mary, R. Phillips, 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Poems. C. Parker, 1775.
Robinson, Mary. Poems. J. Bell; J. Evans, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Sappho and Phaon. Printed by S. Gosnell for the Author, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Sight, The Cavern of Woe, and Solitude. Printed by T. Spilsbury and sold by J. Evans, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. The False Friend. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Robinson, Mary. The Lucky Escape. Printed for the author, 1778.
Robinson, Mary. The Natural Daughter. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Robinson, Mary. The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. Editor Robinson, Maria Elizabeth, R. Phillips, 1806.
Robinson, Mary. The Sicilian Lover. Printed for the author, by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.