Mary Robinson

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Standard Name: Robinson, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Darby
Married Name: Mrs Mary Robinson
Nickname: Perdita
Pseudonym: A Friend to Humanity
Pseudonym: Miss Randall
Pseudonym: Anne Frances Randall
Pseudonym: Laura
Pseudonym: Laura-Maria
Pseudonym: Julia
Pseudonym: Daphne
Pseudonym: Oberon
Pseudonym: Echo
Pseudonym: Louisa
Pseudonym: Tabitha Bramble
Indexed Name: Mrs Thomas Robinson
MR , scandalous woman and Romantic poet, was also a forceful and emotional, radical writer in many other genres: novels, scholarship, memoirs, drama, periodical essays, and translation. During the last two years of her life her level of productivity was almost frenetic, and the quality of her writing was adversely affected.
Glamorous painting of Mary Robinson, attributed to John Hoppner. She wears a black hat with wide drooping brim, adorned with white ostrich feathers which echo her big-style powdered hair. Her gown is black with lace at the low neckline and a red rose on the sleeve, echoing red drapery behind her.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Miss Aikin's Poems sold five hundred copies in just over four months, and the second edition sold a similar number in a similar period. In September a third edition was announced.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Monthly Review...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Henrietta Battier
HB 's mock epithalamium is a close parody of Dryden 's Alexander's Feast, and had the ROYAL
Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street.
title-page
on her title-page printed upside-down. She brings together in her sights the prince as an individual...
Friends, Associates Anna Maria Bennett
It seems that AMB was a friend of the poet and novelist Mary Robinson (whose early notoriety made some respectable women wary of friendship with her). Robinson wrote on 31st August 1800 from Englefield Cottage...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Theodora Benson
In 1951 TB returned to partnership with Bentley though not with Askwith in a different treatment of famous people, London Immortals in Allan Wingate 's The Londoners' Library series. This goes through London street by...
Friends, Associates Anna Eliza Bray
Through her father and grandfather, AEB was introduced to the actress Mary Robinson .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 51
Textual Production Frances Brooke
FB 's first musical, Rosina, set to music by William Shields , opened at Covent Garden .
Mary Robinson performed in the mainpiece at Covent Garden that night; but if she was in Rosina...
Literary responses Sarah Harriet Burney
Charles Burney , too, slighted his youngest daughter's work in comparison with the elder's.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
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Jane Austen later noted that Clarentine seemed good on the first reading, not so good on the second, and unnatural...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Frederick Clark
The title-page of the first volume quotes Mary Robinson writing on the heart's sufferings, and that of the last volume quotes James Thomson on the eventual reward for suffering of the noble few. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Frederick Clark
Quotations heading chapters come from Milton and other mostly modern poets, including Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson . Other inset poems may be EFC 's own.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta.
The story opens as Portuguese peasants encounter a fainting...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Frederick Clark
This opens in summer in Newfoundland, where the Douglas children (Felix, fifteen, Rose, fourteen, and the youngest, Jane, who has red hair and a violent temper) are, oddly, on their way home to Devon...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cobbold
This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie , Lucy Aikin , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Anne Hunter , Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith , and EC herself.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Cowley
They included HC 's attack on Mary Robinson in a poem entitled On Della Crusca.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
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Textual Production Helen Craik
This appeared in four volumes from the Minerva Press . Its title seems to be the root source of scholarly confusion of HC with Catherine Cuthbertson . HC was clearly familiar with Helen Maria Williams
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Craik
Authors quoted on HC 's title-page include La Rochefoucauld . Mary Robinson 's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32.
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The story opens shortly before the French Revolution...
Reception Helen Craik
Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32.
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Critic Shareen Robinson describes this novel as...

Timeline

June 1787: Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine...

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June 1787

Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine and Impartial Review, which continued with variations in subtitle until December 1792.

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.

June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...

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June 1793

An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney , put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.

By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

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By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.

24 November 1800: The Morning Post printed Coleridge's love-lyric...

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24 November 1800

The Morning Post printed Coleridge 's love-lyricAlcaeus to Sappho, which he had sent in about six weeks earlier and which was probably addressed to Mary Robinson .

1827: Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both...

Women writers item

1827

Publishers Hunt and Clarke reprinted both Charlotte Charke and Mary Robinson in its series entitled Autobiography. A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives ever published.

Texts

Robinson, Mary. Angelina. Printed for the author and sold by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Captivity. A Poem; and, Celadon and Julia. A Tale. T. Becket, 1777.
Robinson, Mary. Hubert de Sevrac. Printed for the author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Impartial Reflections on the Present Situation of the Queen of France. John Bell, 1791.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.
Robinson, Mary. Letter about visitors at Englefield Green to Samuel Jackson Pratt.
Robinson, Mary. Letter to Samuel Jackson Pratt, 31 August 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Lyrical Tales. Prionted by Biggs and Cottle for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems. Editor Pascoe, Judith, Broadview, 2000.
Robinson, Mary. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson. Editor Robinson, Maria Elizabeth, R. Phillips, 1801.
Robinson, Mary. Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds. J. Bell, 1792.
Robinson, Mary. Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France. Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son and sold by J. Evans and T. Becket, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Ode to the Harp of the Late Accomplished and Amiable Louisa Hanway. John Bell, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
Hager, Giuseppe. Picture of Palermo. Translator Robinson, Mary, R. Phillips, 1800.
Robinson, Mary. Poems. C. Parker, 1775.
Robinson, Mary. Poems. J. Bell; J. Evans, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. Sappho and Phaon. Printed by S. Gosnell for the Author, 1796.
Robinson, Mary. Sight, The Cavern of Woe, and Solitude. Printed by T. Spilsbury and sold by J. Evans, 1793.
Robinson, Mary. The False Friend. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Robinson, Mary. The Lucky Escape. Printed for the author, 1778.
Robinson, Mary. The Natural Daughter. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Robinson, Mary. The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. Editor Robinson, Maria Elizabeth, R. Phillips, 1806.
Robinson, Mary. The Sicilian Lover. Printed for the author, by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.