Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xviii
Henry Crabb Robinson
Standard Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Mary Hays | MH
died at Lower Clapton; Henry Crabb Robinson
heard the news on the same day. Editor Marilyn Brooks
gives her death-date as 22 February. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 264 Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, pp. xv - xx; 1. xviii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle
in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met the Unitarian diarist Henry Crabb Robinson
, who became a lifelong friend. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 133 McCarthy, William, Elizabeth Kraft, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xlvi |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson
as the equal of Shakespeare
. In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson
(who thought this behaviour personally... |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie
had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874. http://U of A, HSS Ruth N , http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 1: 182 |
| Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Henry Crabb Robinson
, whose youthful admiration of ALB
modulated not into rage but into condescension, enacted a more typical erasure of female fame than did Coleridge or Lamb. Robinson, as it happens, was witness... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Henry Crabb Robinson
(another friend of EOB
) reported a pleasant evening at her house, with other women writers. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan, 1872. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Jane Vardill | While she lived in London AJV
moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
(who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who... |
| Friends, Associates | William Blake | Friends of WB
included William Hayley
(who provided his cottage at Felpham, but with whom Blake broke after their years as neighbours) and Henry Crabb Robinson
, who published a critical essay about him in... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | ML
's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick
(whose husband
and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson
, and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | Crabb Robinson
, another minor player, called the distinguished guests [f]ive poets of very unequal worth and most disproportionate popularity, whom the public would rank in the reverse order to their actual achievement. Sarah Burton |
Timeline
10 December 1806
Charles Lamb
's farceMr H— opened at Drury Lane
. Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.
May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
October 1908
Edith Morley
won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan, 1872.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938.