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	Harriet Martineau	These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...
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. 420n5, 419 Henry Crabb Robinson struck the deal with Colburn
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...
politics	Anne Plumptre	AP was not merely an old Jacobin, Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 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...
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. 40 She found it exhausting. Once finished, in December 1814, she told Crabb Robinson that writing...
Literary responses	Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington	This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...
Literary responses	Sarah Harriet Burney	SHB called this work, once in print, my little booky. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 440 Henry Crabb Robinson , presumably in deference to her age, pretended that his opinion was higher than it really was. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 442n2
Literary responses	Sarah Harriet Burney	Henry Crabb Robinson , the London gentleman for whom she had assumed an air of such mock-modesty, thought her one of the liveliest and most amusing Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press. lvi of his correspondents.

Timeline

10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farceMr 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.

May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.

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/.

Texts

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan, 1872.

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938.