Henry Crabb Robinson

Henry Crabb Robinson judged this essay to be charming, acute, entertaining & yet wise.

Aikin's aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld sympathised with her trepidation over the reviews.Henry Crabb Robinson found the novel pleasing, and reported to the author that his approbation was shared by Charles and Mary Lamb...

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...

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. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...

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...

Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...

Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.

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...

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. During the first years of her bereavement...

Henry Crabb Robinson visited HMW and recorded his impressions in his diary.

Crabb Robinson , another minor player, called the distinguished guests [f]ive poets of very unequal worth and most disproportionate popularity, whom the public would rank in the reverse order to their actual achievement. Sarah Burton

Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson , Sarah Burney , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and Mary Russell Mitford were all privy to this gossip.

Particularly important among her circle was the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson . He valued her company, her abilities, and her letters highly. They saw a lot of each other in Rome.

LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth .

Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb.