Henry Crabb Robinson

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...

Ann was sorry that Joanna Baillie had left Colchester before theTaylors arrived there; but her intense, but humble, yearnings to encounter a live author were gratified by meeting Anna Laetitia Barbauld in London...

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...

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

After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charles

Henry Crabb Robinson (another friend of EOB ) reported a pleasant evening at her house, with other women writers.

While she lived in London AJV moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden (who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who...

ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...

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...

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...

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

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

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...

SHB called this work, once in print, my little booky.Henry Crabb Robinson , presumably in deference to her age, pretended that his opinion was higher than it really was.

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...