Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA, 2012.
Kate Summerscale
Standard Name: Summerscale, Kate
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| Literary responses | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Kate Summerscale
's Miss Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, 2012, has renewed interest in IHR
. Summerscale reprints excerpts of the diary (which has never been published in its entirety... |
| Author summary | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | IHR
's diary acquired notoriety after it was found to contain details of her relationship with a younger, married doctor and after it was made public in the Divorce Court
(at a moment when divorce... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Kate Summerscale
writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up... |
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