Mary Darby (later MR
) was born during a tempestuous night,
qtd. in
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
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at the Minster House, College Green, Bristol: two years earlier than the date given by her published memoirs and her gravestone.
A...
Friends, Associates
Mary Robinson
MR
remained devoted to the idea of female friendship. She met the artist Maria Cosway
in France and they became firm friends. In her last months she wrote to the novelist Elizabeth Gunning
to sympathise...
Textual Features
Mary Robinson
This includes her Ode to Rapture (reprinted from The Oracle, later omitted from her posthumous volume), which her editor Judith Pascoe
calls her most direct treatment of sexual passion.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64.