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

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
She...
Friends, Associates Mathilde Blind
One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird (famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888).
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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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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Literary responses Emily Brontë
Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...
Friends, Associates Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC 's friends included Vernon Lee and Agnes Mary Frances Robinson .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Literary responses Michael Field
Edith and Katharine must have also been extremely pleased with the praise they received from the critics. A review in The Spectator heralded a new voice which is likely to be heard far and wide...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
As the Victorian period advanced, FH 's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in...
Family and Intimate relationships Vernon Lee
VL met poet, biographer, and critic Mary Robinson (later Darmesteter, then Duclaux), and the two became close companions.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Family and Intimate relationships Vernon Lee
Following the departure of her companion Mary Robinson , VL began a new relationship with Clementina (Kit) Anstruther-Thomson .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Cultural formation Vernon Lee
In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women,
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...
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
Dedications Vernon Lee
Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson , this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...
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...
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...

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.