Samuel Robinson

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Catherine Cuthbertson
It came out in four volumes from Robinson , but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804.
Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press.
232
Robinson re-issued...
Textual Production Mrs E. M. Foster
Another doubtful ascription to MEMF was Light and Shade, published in four volumes by R. Crutwell and G. and J. Robinson . The attribution is: By the Author of Federetta, Rebecca, Miriam, and Concealment...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
AR published through Robinson her best-known gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, which netted her £500.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
93
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 361
Textual Production Ann Yearsley
The full title was The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript. It was published by Robinson in four volumes—though it is, as the full title implies, incomplete. They...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
The full title is A Journey made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return down the Rhine. To which are added Observations during a...
Textual Production Mary Hays
She had finished writing it by early May. Her publisher was Robinson , who also published Godwin. He advertised the novel just before publication.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
94-5
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 677
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published with G. and S. Robinson the epistolary Iwanowna; or, The Maid of Moscow. A Novel; the title-page identifies her only by a list of some of her previous work.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 381
Feminist Companion Archive.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS , by now known as a published poet, printed through Robinson a Poem to the Memory of Lady Millar [sic], who had died the previous June after offering her early encouragement.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
53 (1782): 230
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
CS dated the preface (an innovation for her) to Desmond: A Novel, published through G. G. J. and J. Robinson , the first of her works to be titled with a man's name.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 574
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
140, 142
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press.
xxiii
Textual Production Elizabeth Inchbald
A two-act farce by EI , Appearance is Against Them (played at Covent Garden the previous month), was published by George Robinson .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
60 (1785): 393
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
34
Textual Production Germaine de Staël
GS published her successful and controversial novel Delphine; two separate English translations appeared in 1803: one from Mawman by April, and one from Robinsons (delayed by a warehouse fire) by May.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg.
122
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 38 (1803): 48
Textual Production Frances Jacson
Fifteen years after her most recent book, FJ published a novel entitled Things By Their Right Names, with a different publisher, Robinson , and under a pseudonym, A Person without a Name.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Sophia Lee
It occupied six volumes, published with Robinson . It was, she says, the first of all her works to be written, although almost the last to appear.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
xxvi-xxvii
Textual Production Sarah Harriet Burney
The publishers were G. G. and J. Robinson . The novel's appearance almost coincided with that of Frances Burney's Camilla. SHB seems proudly, even huffily, to have rejected the idea of arranging for some...
Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
CM published with Robinson a progessive theological work entitled A Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
56 (1783): 348

Timeline

1763: George Robinson founded his publishing firm...

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1763

George Robinson founded his publishing firm in Paternoster Row, London; it became G., G. J., and J. Robinson in 1784 when his son and brother joined as partners.

By May 1773: William Russell anonymously published An...

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By May 1773

William Russell anonymously published An Essay on the Character, Manner, and Genius of Women in different Ages, translated from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas .

1804: The publisher George, George, and John Robinson,...

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1804

The publisher George, George, and John Robinson , whose list of women writers had been distinguished, went bankrupt.

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