Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
A. Mary F. Robinson
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Standard Name: Robinson, A. Mary F.
Birth Name: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Married Name: Agnes Mary Frances Darmesteter
Indexed Name: Madame James Darmesteter
Indexed Name: Mary James Darmesteter
Married Name: Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
Indexed Name: Madame Duclaux
Indexed Name: Madame Mary Duclaux
Used Form: Mary Robinson
Used Form: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
AMFR
's long career occupied the late decades of nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. It spanned two countries, England and France, and two languages, English and French. Robinson was generally known as a poet, but published successfully in several genres. Eight poetry collections and one novel bear her name. She also published several biographies (including one of Emily Brontë
) and historical essays. A literary critic and translator, she was a useful cultural guide to French readers of English literature—where she gave women writers a prominent place in the literary ranks—and for English readers to the literature of France.
Through her involvement with the Ladies' Land League
, HL
became acquainted with the League's leading force: Irish nationalist and artist Anna Parnell
, to whom she dedicated her novel The Prince of the Glades...
Textual Features
Hannah Lynch
In her dedication HL
promised to portray a kind of upstanding young Frenchman who was common in life but rare in literature.
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “A Forgotten Franco-Irish Literary Network: Hannah Lynch, Arvède Barine and Salon Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”. Études irlandaises, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 157-71.
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Denys D'Auvrillac is attracted by the English Mary Sumers, who sets out...
Literary responses
Hannah Lynch
Arvède Barine
, who had offered to review the original when it came out, contributed a supportive and enthusiastic
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “A Forgotten Franco-Irish Literary Network: Hannah Lynch, Arvède Barine and Salon Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”. Études irlandaises, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 157-71.
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review to the Journal des débats of the French translation (which she had also looked...
Publishing
Hannah Lynch
HL
reviewed French writers and writings for the Contemporary Review and for the Fortnightly Review, where her article on the French playwright and novelist Paul Hervieu
appeared in October 1896 and she reviewed A. Mary F. Robinson
Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson
, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...
Literary responses
Vernon Lee
Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on...
Textual Features
Vernon Lee
Lee's title character is Anne Brown, a beautiful but uneducated nursemaid who captures the imagination of Walter Hamlin, a frustrated painter and poet staying in the Tuscan village of Lucca. Walter makes Anne his...
Publishing
Vernon Lee
Mary Patricia Kane
edited at Rome in 2004 a volume entitled Spurious Ghosts: the Fantastic Tales of Vernon Lee. Another collection of Lee's short stories entitled Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, edited by...
Textual Features
Vernon Lee
These letters (to correspondents including her family, Linda Villari, and her beloved Mary Robinson
) show her startling intellectual development over these two decades. Some are written in English, others (with translations here) in French...
Family and Intimate relationships
Vernon Lee
VL
met poet, biographer, and critic Mary Robinson
(later Darmesteter, then Duclaux), and the two became close companions.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Cultural formation
Vernon Lee
In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby
repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women,
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...
Travel
Vernon Lee
VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in...
Timeline
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Texts
Robinson, A. Mary F. “The Social Novel in France”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
75
, pp. 800-13.
Robinson, A. Mary F. “The Three Kings”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
56
, pp. 848-58.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Twentieth Century French Writers. W. Collins, 1919.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Victor Hugo. Constable, 1921.