Henry Crabb Robinson

EAP met Mary Russell Mitford in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill . Vardill was a friend and associate from...

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

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...

ALB met the Unitarian diarist Henry Crabb Robinson , who became a lifelong friend.

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...

In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller , Goethe , Henry Crabb Robinson , and Schlegel , whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children.

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...

Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author were gratified by meeting Anna Laetitia Barbauld in London...

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. During the first years of her bereavement...

Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.

EAP was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution , and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest...

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...

Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

SHB called this work, once in print, my little booky.Henry Crabb Robinson , presumably in deference to her age, pretended that his opinion was higher than it really was.