Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
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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 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 |
| 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 | 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. 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | Henry Crabb Robinson
visited HMW
and recorded his impressions in his diary. Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta. 275-6 |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson
, Sarah Burney
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and Mary Russell Mitford
were all privy to this gossip. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 4 |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Harriet Burney | Particularly important among her circle was the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson
. He valued her company, her abilities, and her letters highly. They saw a lot of each other in Rome. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press. l-li |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
met Henry Crabb Robinson
and William Wordsworth
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 1: 200 |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
dined with Crabb Robinson
, Wordsworth
, Henry Coleridge
, and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton
and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 142 |
Timeline
10 December 1806: Charles Lamb's farce Mr H— opened at Drury...
Writing climate item
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,...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 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.