Henry Crabb Robinson

Standard Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literary responses Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton .
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
149
Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...
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
Health Mary Lamb
Henry Crabb Robinson , who saw her a few days after the funeral, believed that although she was speaking sense she was actually out of her mind.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
375
During the first years of her bereavement...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Lamb
Sarah Burton calls this her only piece of non-fiction—also the only project she ever undertook without her brother's collaboration.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
40
She found it exhausting. Once finished, in December 1814, she told Crabb Robinson that writing...
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.
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xviii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
264
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xviii
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
Wealth and Poverty Mary Hays
Crabb Robinson depicted her life in 1817-19 as that of a typical woman professional writer: moving from one cheap set of lodgings to another, alone, short of money, and inclined to be boring (which probably...
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, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 182
were gratified by meeting Anna Laetitia Barbauld in London...
Reception Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF 's life which appeared (edited by Emerson and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot and Henry Crabb Robinson . Robinson observed that no...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fenwick
Other more or less radical friends of EF included Thomas Holcroft , Anne Plumptre , Elizabeth Benger , Jane Porter , Henry Crabb Robinson , Charles and Mary Lamb , and their friend Sarah Stoddart
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Fenwick
Mary Lamb 's mention, in a context of her own money troubles, of a recent, memorable visit from EF probably relates to this event. Nearly two years later, on 12 November 1807, Mary Hays sent...
Textual Production Eliza Fenwick
EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...
Literary responses George Eliot
Henry Crabb Robinson judged this essay to be charming, acute, entertaining & yet wise.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
126

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