Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Meanwhile in May 1865, six months after the divorce, at the age of fifty-eight, Henry Robinson
married twenty-four-year-old Maria Arabella Long
, the daughter of former registrar of the Irish Court of Chancery. They had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Isabella Hamilton Dansey
married Henry Oliver Robinson
, an Irish Protestant who was six years older than she was. She had been introduced to him when she had been a widow for two years, refused... |
Literary responses | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Henry Robinson
was livid when he discovered his wife's journal, and set out to use it as evidence for dissolving the marriage on the grounds of her adultery with Edward Lane. The court case, presented... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | The background to her diary was the fact that her marriage with Henry Robinson
was not a happy union. She started writing during a period of loneliness and poor health in 1849, when Henry was... |
politics | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Henry Robinson
suffered financially as a result of the expenses of the trial, and remained bitter towards Isabella; his attempt to overturn the verdict in 1859 was not successful. Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA. 217 |
politics | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Henry Robinson
's court case claiming divorce from his wife, IHR
, on grounds of her adultery, based largely on her diary, opened in Westminster Hall
, London. It was presented over five days. Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA. prologue |
politics | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | The marriage between IHR
and Henry Robinson
was officially dissolved, the year after Henry's seven-year search for evidence finally turned up the record of a hotel room that Isabella had shared with a man. This... |
politics | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | When Henry Robinson
discovered what he took to be evidence of his wife's adultery, he sought a divorce in the newly formed Divorce Court
. This case was one of the first to be petitioned... |
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