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.
Lee's title character is Anne Brown, a beautiful but uneducated nursemaid who captures the imagination of Walter Hamlin, a frustrated painter and poet staying in the Tuscan village of Lucca. Walter makes Anne his...
Friends, Associates
Mona Caird
She met Arthur Symons
in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy
carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson
(and opposite F. Mabel Robinson
) at a dinner of the...