Henry Crabb Robinson

Standard Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1997.
149
Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...
Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
93
In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...
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, 1997.
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, 1997.
442n2
Literary responses Jane Porter
JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...
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
qtd. in
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
lvi
of his correspondents.
Literary responses George Eliot
Henry Crabb Robinson judged this essay to be charming, acute, entertaining & yet wise.
qtd. in
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
126
Leisure and Society Annabella Plumptre
Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
494
Leisure and Society Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution , and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest...
Health Mary Lamb
Henry Crabb Robinson , who saw her a few days after the funeral, believed that although she was speaking sense she was actually out of her mind.
qtd. in
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
375
During the first years of her bereavement...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fenwick
Other more or less radical friends of EF included Thomas Holcroft , Anne Plumptre , Elizabeth Benger , Jane Porter , Henry Crabb Robinson , Charles and Mary Lamb , and their friend Sarah Stoddart
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB met the Unitarian diarist Henry Crabb Robinson , who became a lifelong friend.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
133
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlvi
Friends, Associates Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 182
were gratified by meeting Anna Laetitia Barbauld in London...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
Henry Crabb Robinson , whose youthful admiration of ALB modulated not into rage but into condescension, enacted a more typical erasure of female fame than did Coleridge or Lamb. Robinson, as it happens, was witness...

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