Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Maria, a writer of sweet, plaintive English ballads,
Green, Sarah. The Private History of the Court of England. Printed for the author.
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is tricked into revealing her love for the prince while acting; is set up in a splendid household at first, but later left destitute while...
Textual Features
Sarah Green
The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a...
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.
2: 24
and in moral terms for the resilience with which she worked for her child (housework as...
Friends, Associates
Mary Hays
This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Inchbald
Its source was L'heureuse erreur by Joseph Patrat
, which had been successful in France.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Mary Robinson
bought a copy.
Reception
Anne Irwin
AI
's Epistle to Pope was anthologized in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, in the 1770s. Mary Robinson
, praising it in 1799, thought it was written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Naomi Jacob
She describes her mother as in advance of her times in many ways: a bicycle rider, a Poor Law Guardian,
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson.
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witty, charming, deeply religious, but with no money and no idea how to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia King
In SK
's life, as in her sister's, their father, John King
, the former Jacob Rey, loomed large. He was a self-made man, a money-lender, a political radical and associate of Wilkes
, the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sophia King
The dutiful daughters thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate. SK
claims in a note that she composed her De Clifford's Ghost at the age of...
Friends, Associates
Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
MLCC
mentions her warm friendships with leading officers of the Royal Navy
, whom she knew through her husband's position. A number of writers too, including Mariana Starke
, became her personal friends.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emma Parker
Fitz-Edward, set in Wales, has poems interspersed, besides the lines of verse heading its chapters, which include the work of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Mary Robinson
, Mary Tighe
, and EP
herself, cited as Emma De Lisle.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.