A. Mary F. Robinson

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Standard Name: Robinson, A. Mary F.
Birth Name: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Married Name: Agnes Mary Frances Darmesteter
Indexed Name: Madame James Darmesteter
Indexed Name: Mary James Darmesteter
Married Name: Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
Indexed Name: Madame Duclaux
Indexed Name: Madame Mary Duclaux
Used Form: Mary Robinson
Used Form: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
AMFR 's long career occupied the late decades of nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. It spanned two countries, England and France, and two languages, English and French. Robinson was generally known as a poet, but published successfully in several genres. Eight poetry collections and one novel bear her name. She also published several biographies (including one of Emily Brontë ) and historical essays. A literary critic and translator, she was a useful cultural guide to French readers of English literature—where she gave women writers a prominent place in the literary ranks—and for English readers to the literature of France.

Connections

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Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Matilda Betham
Catharine Macaulay , she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT 's story The Captain's Bride was included in the collection The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's End, edited by Henry Norman and Austin Dobson and published at New York in 1887. Stories...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
Textual Production Marguerite de Navarre
The Victorian women's movement paid due attention to Marguerite de Navarre as a historical foremother. A. Mary F. Robinson , after publishing a life of her in 1886 for the Eminent Women series, went on...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
Lee's title character is Anne Brown, a beautiful but uneducated nursemaid who captures the imagination of Walter Hamlin, a frustrated painter and poet staying in the Tuscan village of Lucca. Walter makes Anne his...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
These letters (to correspondents including her family, Linda Villari, and her beloved Mary Robinson ) show her startling intellectual development over these two decades. Some are written in English, others (with translations here) in French...
Textual Features Hannah Lynch
In her dedication HL promised to portray a kind of upstanding young Frenchman who was common in life but rare in literature.
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “A Forgotten Franco-Irish Literary Network: Hannah Lynch, Arvède Barine and Salon Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”. Études irlandaises, Vol.
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Denys D'Auvrillac is attracted by the English Mary Sumers, who sets out...
Textual Features Lady Margaret Sackville
Reception Mathilde Blind
Contemporary poet A. Mary F. Robinson is recorded by Vernon Lee to have said in 1881 that MB 's poetry was just among the very best written at present.
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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Publishing Vernon Lee
Mary Patricia Kane edited at Rome in 2004 a volume entitled Spurious Ghosts: the Fantastic Tales of Vernon Lee. Another collection of Lee's short stories entitled Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, edited by...
Publishing Hannah Lynch
HL reviewed French writers and writings for the Contemporary Review and for the Fortnightly Review, where her article on the French playwright and novelist Paul Hervieu appeared in October 1896 and she reviewed A. Mary F. Robinson
Literary responses Vernon Lee
Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on...
Literary responses F. Mabel Robinson
FMR 's sister Mary saluted her as a Realist in her novels, suggesting that her own poetry seemed superficial and fantastic beside Mabel's prose.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin.
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Timeline

1863: Ernest Renan published La Vie de Jésus, an...

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1863

Ernest Renan published La Vie de Jésus, an influential Life of Jesus written from a demythologizing, historical perspective.

1895: Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine, began...

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1895

Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine, began publishing The Bibelot. A Reprint of Poetry & Prose for Book Lovers, a monthly series later collected as an annual volume, of exquisitely produced editions in tiny press-runs.

1904: Madame C. de Broutelles founded the Prix...

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1904

Madame C. de Broutelles founded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, a prestigious French literary prize awarded by a jury of twelve women. A. Mary F. Robinson (an English writer living in France) was a co-founder.

Texts

Robinson, A. Mary F. A Handful of Honeysuckle. C. Kegan Paul, 1878.
Robinson, A. Mary F. A Life of Ernest Renan. Methuen, 1897.
Robinson, A. Mary F. A Short History of France from Caesar’s Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo. McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart, 1918.
Robinson, A. Mary F. A Short History of France from Caesar’s Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo. T. Fisher Unwin, 1918.
Robinson, A. Mary F. An Italian Garden. T. Fisher Unwin, 1886.
Robinson, A. Mary F. An Italian Garden. Thomas B. Mosher, 1897.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Arden. Longmans, Green, 1883.
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Emily Brontë. W. H. Allen, 1883.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Grands écrivains d’outre-manche: les Brontë, Thackeray, Les Browning, Rossetti. Lévy, 1901.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Images and Meditations. T. Fisher Unwin, 1923.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre. W. H. Allen, 1886.
Robinson, A. Mary F., and Maurice Barrès. Mary Duclaux et Maurice Barrès: lettres échangées. Editor Halévy, Daniel, Grasset, 1959.
Robinson, A. Mary F., and Maurice Barrès. “Mary Robinson”. Mary Duclaux et Maurice Barrès: lettres échangées, edited by Daniel Halévy, Grasset, 1959, pp. 13-36.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Portrait of Pascal. T. Fisher Unwin, 1927.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Retrospect and Other Poems. T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative, of A. Mary F. Robinson. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The Crowned Hippolytus and New Poems. C. Kegan Paul, 1881.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The End of the Middle Ages. T. Fisher Unwin, 1889.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The French Procession. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The French Procession. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The Life of Ernest Renan. Methuen, 1898.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The Life of Racine. T. Fisher Unwin, 1925.
Robinson, A. Mary F. The New Arcadia and Other Poems. Roberts Brothers, 1884.