Henry Crabb Robinson

Standard Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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, 1997. 149 Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...
Friends, Associates	Lucy Aikin	LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth . Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols. 1: 200
Friends, Associates	Lucy Aikin	Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb. qtd. in Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 34
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
Literary responses	Lucy Aikin	Aikin's aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld sympathised with her trepidation over the reviews. Clery, Emma. “Ghostly Conversations in the Upper Reading Room: Researching Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 3 , No. 2, 2017, pp. 4-5. 5 Henry Crabb Robinson found the novel pleasing, and reported to the author that his approbation was shared by Charles and Mary Lamb
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 et al. “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	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...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	The British Critic denounced this work (with a crack at the author's gender), while the Critical Review praised both its originality and its expression. Henry Crabb Robinson was perturbed to find ALB writing like an...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 476 other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
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, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols. 199-200 Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
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	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, 1998. 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, 1997. l-li

Timeline

10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farce Mr 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.

Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.

Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.

129

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/.

Morley, Edith. Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life. Editor Morris, Barbara, Two Rivers Press, 2016.

Purvis, June. “Before and After: Reminiscences on a Working Life, by Edith Morley”. Times Higher Education, 3 Mar. 2016.

Texts

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938, 3 vols.