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
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
Friends, Associates Amy Levy
They included Olive Schreiner , the future Beatrice Webb , Dollie Maitland Radford , Margaret Harkness , Clementina Black (whose sister Constance had been a school friend of AL ), and Eleanor Marx . Through...
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.
35027 (21 October 1896): 6
Friends, Associates Hannah Lynch
Through her involvement with the Ladies' Land League , HL became acquainted with the League's leading force: Irish nationalist and artist Anna Parnell , to whom she dedicated her novel The Prince of the Glades...
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.
36
, No. 2, pp. 157-71.
5
Denys D'Auvrillac is attracted by the English Mary Sumers, who sets out...
Literary responses Hannah Lynch
Arvède Barine , who had offered to review the original when it came out, contributed a supportive and enthusiastic
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.
36
, No. 2, pp. 157-71.
3
review to the Journal des débats of the French translation (which she had also looked...
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
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...
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
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
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.
5
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/.

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Texts

Robinson, A. Mary F. “The Social Novel in France”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
75
, pp. 800-13.
Robinson, A. Mary F. “The Three Kings”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
56
, pp. 848-58.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Twentieth Century French Writers. W. Collins, 1919.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Victor Hugo. Constable, 1921.