Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined...
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, 1997.
The story opens as Portuguese peasants encounter a fainting...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sophia King
The dutiful daughters thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate. SK
claims in a note that she composed her De Clifford's Ghost at the age of...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Fenwick
Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
71
The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Intertextuality and Influence
Emma Parker
Fitz-Edward, set in Wales, has poems interspersed, besides the lines of verse heading its chapters, which include the work of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Mary Robinson
, Mary Tighe
, and EP
herself, cited as Emma De Lisle.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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, 2001, pp. 193-32.
228n47
The story opens shortly before the French Revolution...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Dacre
The authors dutifully thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate; last comes a run of five of Charlotte's. Their content is much like that of Charlotte's...
Intertextuality and Influence
G. B. Stern
GBS
describes one of her own short stories in a manner that reflects oddly on the oblivion which enfolded earlier women writers during her career. The story concerns a beautiful, elegant young woman who feels...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Green
Maria, a writer of sweet, plaintive English ballads,
Green, Sarah. The Private History of the Court of England. Printed for the author, 1808, 2 vols.
1: 47
is tricked into revealing her love for the prince while acting; is set up in a splendid household at first, but later left destitute while...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Isabella Spence
She begins with Wales (whose countryside she praises but whose peasants she fairly sweepingly dismisses).
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 2 vols.
1: 24-5
Although her title-page does not name it, she returned to Wales on a later journey, and devotes a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sappho
Sappho
has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly
's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope
's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson
's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sappho
Elizabeth Moody
engagingly converts Sappho
into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798.
Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry, 1996.
98
But many women poets accepted the notion of her rejected love for Phaon: Robinson
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Texts
Robinson, Mary. The Widow. Hookham and Carpenter, 1794, 2 vols.
Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto, 2010, 8 vols.
Robinson, Mary. Thoughts on the Condition of Women. 2nd ed., Printed by G. Woodfall for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Robinson, Mary. Vancenza. Printed for the authoress, 1792, 2 vols.
Robinson, Mary. Walsingham. T. N. Longman, 1797, 4 vols.
Robinson, Mary. Walsingham, or, The Pupil of Nature. Editor Shaffer, Julie A., Broadview Press, 2003.
