Henry Crabb Robinson

Standard Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Eliza Fenwick
Mary Lamb 's mention, in a context of her own money troubles, of a recent, memorable visit from EF probably relates to this event. Nearly two years later, on 12 November 1807, Mary Hays sent...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Hays
Crabb Robinson depicted her life in 1817-19 as that of a typical woman professional writer: moving from one cheap set of lodgings to another, alone, short of money, and inclined to be boring (which probably...
Textual Production Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...
Textual Production Eliza Fenwick
EF 's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
Christobell, A Gothic Tale was one of Vardill's first series of verse tales, which she set variously in India, Scotland, or Provence, or linked to genres like the gothic. She introduced it as a sequel...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Reception Margaret Fuller
The memoir of MF 's life which appeared (edited by Emerson and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot and Henry Crabb Robinson . Robinson observed that no...
Publishing Dorothy Wordsworth
She worked on this account during the year following the actual journey, and found it very hard going, chiefly on account of what she now felt to be the excessive quantity of her notes compiled...
Publishing Sarah Harriet Burney
She wrote The Renunciation in Florence, and finished it by December 1832. The Hermitage, one-third written at Florence, was complete by January 1838.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
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Henry Crabb Robinson struck the deal with Colburn
politics Anne Plumptre
AP was not merely an old Jacobin,
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
viii
but remained at least until 1810 a Bonapartist. She thought at that date that England would benefit from a French invasion to destroy the aristocracy and the...
politics Mary Shelley
MS is often said to have lapsed into conservatism with her husband's death. She did indeed break with the Philosophic Radicals, and was charged by Trelawny with backing down. During the violence preceding the Reform...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Lamb
Sarah Burton calls this her only piece of non-fiction—also the only project she ever undertook without her brother's collaboration.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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She found it exhausting. Once finished, in December 1814, she told Crabb Robinson that writing...
Literary responses Lucy Aikin
Aikin's aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld sympathised with her trepidation over the reviews.
Clery, Emma. “Ghostly Conversations in the Upper Reading Room: Researching Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
3
, No. 2, 2017, pp. 4-5.
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Henry Crabb Robinson found the novel pleasing, and reported to the author that his approbation was shared by Charles and Mary Lamb
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
The British Critic denounced this work (with a crack at the author's gender), while the Critical Review praised both its originality and its expression. Henry Crabb Robinson was perturbed to find ALB writing like an...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...

Timeline

10 December 1806: Charles Lamb's farce Mr H— opened at Drury...

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10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farce Mr H— opened at Drury Lane . Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

Writing climate item

May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
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October 1908: Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing...

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October 1908

Edith Morley won a battle in her ongoing struggle against gender discrimination when she became the first female professor at any British university or college.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Morley, Edith. Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life. Editor Morris, Barbara, Two Rivers Press, 2016.
Purvis, June. “Before and After: Reminiscences on a Working Life, by Edith Morley”. Times Higher Education, 3 Mar. 2016.

Texts

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938, 3 vols.