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
Friends, Associates Augusta Webster
She also knew Frances Power Cobbe , Vernon Lee , Florence Fenwick Miller , and Mabel Robinson (likely, too, her sister A. Mary F. Robinson , who also wrote for the Athenæum at the same...
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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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
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...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW was clearly succeeding in the literary world, fashioning for herself a distinct poetic persona. Linda Hughes finds evidence of this in Katharine Tynan 's essay A Literary Causerie, which appeared in The Speaker...
Literary responses Marie de Sévigné
For years MS was ridiculed for her incorrect orthography, but in fact her unorthodox spelling was modern. It was that advocated by the reformers, participants in a movement to reduce the number of unphonetic letters...
Textual Features Lady Margaret Sackville
This early anthology of poetry by women includes poems by Jane Barlow , Anna Bunston , Frances Cornford , Olive Custance , Michael Field (Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper ), Harriet Hamilton King
Education F. Mabel Robinson
Between these years FMR , again in company with her sister , was one of the earliest women students at University College , London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
death F. Mabel Robinson
FMR died in Paris only a couple of years short of her one hundredth birthday, having outlived her sister by twelve years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications F. Mabel Robinson
FMR dedicated her second novel, Disenchantment, An Every-day Story, to her sister, Mary 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.
Family and Intimate relationships F. Mabel Robinson
Mabel's sister, her elder by only a year, Agnes Mary Frances , became (first as Robinson, then as Darmesteter, then as Duclaux), a considerably better-known writer than Mabel, who often seems almost invisible compared with...
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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Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson
Family and Intimate relationships Marion Moss
Of her daughters, Hélèna Darmesteter , became a portrait painter. Her article Death of Marion Hartog appeared in the Jewish Chronicle on 1 November 1907. Hélèna married the French philologist Arsène Darmesteter (whose brother James
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...
Dedications Hannah Lynch
HL 's second book this year was a novel entitled Denys D'Auvrillac, A Story of French Life, which she dedicated to her friend the expatriate English writer Mary Robinson under her married name.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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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.