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.
SG
published anonymously, with Crosby
, a two-volume roman à clef entitled The Private History of the Court of England, one of whose topics is the career of the writer Mary Robinson
.
Scholar...
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Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
In 1800 appeared a pamphlet essay which may be by JP
or to her and her sister
: A Defence of the Profession of an Actor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Thomas McLean
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Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
The play had already been acted at Newbury Town Hall on 6 April; it was published the next year. Mary Robinson
was in the London cast, the author conspicuous in the audience.
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Elizabeth Inchbald
Its source was L'heureuse erreur by Joseph Patrat
, which had been successful in France.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
Mary Robinson
performed in the mainpiece at Covent Garden that night; but if she was in Rosina...
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Leah Sumbel
It is often said (for instance by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) that Topham's main aim in this venture was to boost her career. The World was known for featuring personal attacks on...
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Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
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Anna Jane Vardill
For her first few years of appearing there, AJV
was almost the only woman in the longish list of poetry contributors to the European Magazine (although over the magazine's lifetime the eleven women who published...
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Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
It is not clear how much of Bellamy's completed novel ESG
actually wrote: as much as the whole of volume three may be hers. Her preface echoes Samuel Johnson
when it says the history of...
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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.