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.
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.
Literary responses George Eliot
Henry Crabb Robinson judged this essay to be charming, acute, entertaining & yet wise.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
126
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, pp. 4-5.
5
Henry Crabb Robinson found the novel pleasing, and reported to the author that his approbation was shared by Charles and Mary Lamb...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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

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