Henry Crabb Robinson

Aikin's aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld sympathised with her trepidation over the reviews.Henry Crabb Robinson found the novel pleasing, and reported to the author that his approbation was shared by Charles and Mary Lamb...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...

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...

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...

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...

LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth .

Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb.

LA dined with Crabb Robinson , Wordsworth , Henry Coleridge , and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton .

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

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...

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...