Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
F. Mabel Robinson
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Standard Name: Robinson, F. Mabel
Birth Name: Frances Mabel Robinson
Pseudonym: William Stephenson Gregg
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published six novels during the 1880s and 1890s that are daring both in subject-matter and handling, broaching such topics as women's status, seduction, and illegitimacy. She also produced a political history of Ireland and translations from French. In 1890 she was regarded as one of the leading authors of the day,
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.
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but her reputation has worn less well than that of her sister.
The dedication to Mary's sister Mabel
, her first critic, earliest audience,
Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin.
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reads: dear Novelist (in memory of the days when you meant to be nearly everything else under the sun, but never a...
Dedications
A. Mary F. Robinson
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published her eighth poetry collection, Images and Meditations, A Book of Poems, as by Mary Duclaux, and with a dedication to her only sister, dearest friend,
Robinson, A. Mary F. Images and Meditations. T. Fisher Unwin.
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Mabel Robinson
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.