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.
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
.
Maria, a writer of sweet, plaintive English ballads,
Green, Sarah. The Private History of the Court of England. Printed for the author.
1: 47
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Fenwick
Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley
, her first husband the architect Willey Reveley
, and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley
. (Their son was a playmate...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Fenwick
Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press.
71
The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Grace Elliott
In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X
) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans
, later...
Textual Production
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
The play had already been acted at Newbury Town Hall on 6 April; it was published the next year. Mary Robinson
was in the London cast, the author conspicuous in the audience.
Literary responses
Susannah Dobson
Not long after her death, SD
was mentioned by Mary Robinson
as one of the enlightened British women who had enriched their country with valuable translations. Another who agreed about her attainments was Richard Polwhele
Literary responses
Selina Davenport
Julie A. Shaffer
quotes at length from the cross-dressing passages in this book in Appendix C of her edition of Mary Robinson
's Walsingham.
Robinson, Mary. Walsingham, or, The Pupil of Nature. Editor Shaffer, Julie A., Broadview Press.
526-30
Literary responses
Anne Damer
AD
's sculpture brought some echoes of the earlier attacks on her. A print displayed in London in July 1789, The Damerian Apollo, showed her in the unfeminine act of taking artistic liberties with...
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Dacre
CD
's father was born Jacob Rey
, a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine
the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...
