by Paula Byrne
Rivers, David, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain, 2 vols (1798).
Robinson, Mary Elizabeth, The Shrine of Bertha: A Novel, 2 vols (1794; 2nd edn, 1796).
Russell, Lord John, ed., Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, 3 vols (1853).
St Clair, William, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family (London, 1989).
A Satire on the Present Times (1780).
The School for Scandal, A Comedy in Five Acts, As it is Performed by His Majesty’s Servants, etc. [anonymous satire] (1784).
Sheridan, R. B., Letters, ed. Cecil Price, 3 vols (Oxford, 1966).
Steele, Elizabeth, Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley, 6 vols (1787); 3 vols (Dublin, 1878).
Taylor, John, Records of my Life, 2 vols (1832).
Thrale, Hester, Thraliana, ed. K. C. Balderston, 2 vols (Oxford, 1951).
Timbs, J., Clubs and Club Life in London (London, 1908).
The Vis-à-Vis of Berkley-Square. Or, A Wheel off Mrs W*t**n’s Carriage. Inscribed to Florizel (1783).
Walpole, Horace, Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis, vols xxv-xxxv (New Haven, 1955–73).
——, The Last Journals of Horace Walpole during the Reign of George III, ed. A. Francis Steuart, 2 vols (London, 1910).
Waterhouse, E. K., ‘A Gainsborough Bill for the Prince of Wales’, Burlington Magazine, 88 (1946), 276.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, Collected Letters, ed. Janet Todd (London, 2003).
Woof, Robert, ‘Wordsworth’s Poetry and Stuart’s Newspapers: 1797–1803’, Studies in Bibliography, 15 (1962), 149–89.
MARY ROBINSON AS AUTHOR: SELECTED MODERN CRITICISM
Bolton, Betsy, ‘Romancing the Stone: “Perdita” Robinson in Wordsworth’s London’, ELH, 64 (1997), 727–59.
Craciun, Adriana, ‘Violence against Difference: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Robinson’, Bucknell Review, 42 (1998), 111–41.
——and Kari E. Lokke, eds, Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (Albany, NY, 2001).
Cross, Ashley, ‘From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson’s Reputation and the Problem of Literary Debt’, Studies in Romanticism, 40 (2001), 571–605.
Cullens, Chris, ‘Mrs Robinson and the Masquerade of Womanliness’, in Veronica Kelly and Dorothea von Mücke (eds), Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford, 1994), pp. 266–89.
Curran, Stuart, ‘The I Altered’, in Anne K. Mellor (ed.), Romanticism and Feminism (Bloomington, Ind., 1988), pp. 185–207.
——, ‘Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales in Context’, in Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner (eds), Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776–1837 (Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 17–35.
Ford, Susan Allen, ‘“A Name More Dear”: Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story. The False Friend, and Mathilda’, in Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner (eds), Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776–1837 (Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 51–71.
Fulford, Tim, ‘Mary Robinson and the Abyssinian Maid: Coleridge’s Muses and Feminist Criticism’, Romanticism on the Net, 13 (Feb. 1999).
Kelly, Gary, The English Jacobin Novel, 1780–1805 (Oxford, 1976).
Labbe, Jacqueline M., ‘Selling One’s Sorrows: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and the Marketing of Poetry’, Wordsworth Circle, 25 (1994), 68–71.
——, ed., Women’s Writing, 9:1 (2002), ‘Special Number: Mary Robinson’.
Lee, Debbie, ‘The Wild Wreath: Cultivating a Poetic Circle for Mary Robinson’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 30 (1997), 23–34.
Luther, Susan, ‘A Stranger Minstrel: Coleridge’s Mrs Robinson’, Studies in Romanticism, 33 (1994), 391–409.
McGann, Jerome, The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style (Oxford, 1996), especially ‘Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho’, pp. 97–116.
Mellor, Anne K., ‘British Romanticism, Gender and Three Women Artists’, in Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (eds), The Consumption of Culture 1600–1800 (New York, 1995), pp. 121–42.
——, ‘Mary Robinson and the Scripts of Female Sexuality’, in Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis, and Jill Kowalik (eds), Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Cambridge, England, and New York, 2000).
Pascoe, Judith, Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (Ithaca, NY, 1997).
Perry, Gill, ‘“The British Sappho”: Borrowed Identities and the Representation of Women Artists in late Eighteenth-Century British Art’, Oxford Art Journal, 18 (1995), 44–57.
Peterson, Linda H., ‘Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson’s Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist’s Autobiography’, in Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner (eds), Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776–1837 (Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 36–50.
Robinson, Daniel, ‘From “Mingled Measure” to “Ecstatic Measures”: Mary Robinson’s Poetic Reading of “Kubla Khan”’, Wordsworth Circle, 26 (1995), 4–7.
——, ‘Reviving the Sonnet: Women Romantic Poets and the Sonnet Claim’, European Romantic Review, 6 (1995), 98–127.
Setzer, Sharon, ‘Mary Robinson’s Sylphid Self: The End of Feminine Self-Fashioning’, Philological Quarterly, 75 (1996), 501–20.
——, ‘The Dying Game: Crossdressing in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 22 (2000), 305–28.
Ty, Eleanor, Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796–1812 (Toronto, 1998).
It should be noted that some of these modern critical accounts contain biographical inaccuracies both major and minor.
FICTIONAL TREATMENTS
Anon., The Royal Legend: A Tale (1808).
Barrington, E., The Exquisite Perdita (1926).
[Green, Sarah], The Private History of the Court of England (1808).
Makower, Stanley, Perdita: A Romance in Biography (1908).
Plaidy, Jean, Perdita’s Prince (1969).
Steen, Marguerite, The Lost One (1937).
INDEX
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Abington, Fanny 51
actresses 88–90, 98
Aikin, Anna see Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Ainsi va le Monde 182–4, 272, 280
Aix-la-chapelle (Aachen) 253
Albanesi, Angelina 71
Albanesi, Angelo 66, 69, 71, 132
Alexander the Great 81
‘All Alone’ 384
All for Love 84
American War of Independence 175, 177, 180–1
Amours of Carlo Khan, The 244
Analytical Review 280
‘Anecdotes of Distinguished Personages’ 382
Angelina 90–1, 290, 335–9
Annals of Gallantry 244
Anti-Jacobin Review 367, 371, 372
Armistead, Elizabeth 77, 160, 243, 315
affair with Prince of Wales 141, 142, 150, 153
and Fox 201, 216, 221, 424
rivalry with Mary 147–8, 149
As You Like It 99, 117–18
Austen, Jane 206, 222, 294
Ayscough, Captain George 49–50, 63
Baddeley, Sophia 49, 79, 133–4, 144
Balack, Hanway see Hanway, Hanway
Bannister, John 190
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 50, 66
Barrymore, Lord 356
Bate, Henry 18, 75, 138–9, 169
Bate, Mary 138–9
Bath 283–5
Beauties of Mrs Robinson, The 279
Beaux’ Stratagem, The 218–19
Belgeioso, Count de 50, 71
Bell, John 265, 266, 272, 275, 278, 300, 314
Belle’s Stratagem, The 120
Bertie, Susan 362–3, 372, 422
Bertin, Rose 173
Biron, Duc de 227<
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Bluestocking Society 266
Boaden, James 267, 274, 284, 297, 310
Boyle, Richard 281
Brereton, George 92–5
Brereton, William 51, 73–4, 75
Brighton 262–3
Bristol 7, 8
theatre 11–12
British Legion 180
Broderip, Edmund 13
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Aurora Leigh 372–3
Brummell, George 184
Budget of Love, or, Letters between Florizel and Perdita 151–2
Burgoyne, Lieutenant General ‘Gentleman Johnny’ 275
Burke, Edmund 268, 291
Reflections on the Revolution in France 291, 292
Burke, Richard 268
Burney, Edward 187
Burney, Fanny 24, 25, 187
Evelina 48, 78
Camp, The 87, 99
Campbell, Lady Augusta 128
Capel, George see Malden, Lord
Captivity, a Poem;
And Celadon and Lydia, a Tale 69, 84
Caroline of Brunswick 326, 346
Carpenter, Lady Almeria 49
Cavendish, Lord George 141
Celestial Beds, The (pamphlet) 219
Charlotte, Queen 105
Chartres, Duke of 171–2, 173, 174, 175, 177, 214
Chatelet, Duke and Duchess of 254
Chatterton, Thomas 8, 277
chemise de la Reine 203–6
Cholmondeley, Earl of 155, 159
Chubb, John 360
Cibber, Susannah 24
Clandestine Marriage, The 34, 82
Clarence, Duke of 310, 323, 330, 333
Coleridge, Derwent 412
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 3, 286–8, 315, 342, 357, 382, 411, 422–3
admiration of Mary’s poetry 270, 379–80, 386
‘Ancient Mariner’ 380, 383–4
‘The Apotheosis, or the Snow-Drop’ 359
Bristol connections 8
concern for Mary’s health 286–7
engaged with Mary as ‘political corespondent’ for Morning Post 357, 358, 379
‘Frost at Midnight’ 412–13
influence of Della Cruscans 264
‘Kubla Khan’ 286–7, 413, 414
letter written to by Mary whilst on deathbed 414
‘The Mad Monk’ 424
Mary’s poem for son (Derwent) 66, 412
‘The Nightingale’ 65
and opium 287–8
poems written by Mary for 412–14
review of Hubert de Sevrac 347
‘A Stranger Minstrel’ 414
Colman, George 86
Comus 84
Coningsby, Lady Frances 144
Cornwallis, Lord 181, 225
Cosway, Maria 191, 388
Cosway, Richard 186, 191
Country Girl, The 323
Covent Garden theatre 75
Cowley, Hannah 25, 84, 264, 265–6, 267
Cox, Samuel 20, 21
Critical Review 280, 299, 337
Cumberland, Duke of 81, 116, 119, 131, 133, 142, 146, 148, 153
Curran, John Philpot 408
Dally the Tall (Grace Dalrymple Eliot) 153, 154, 160, 168, 170, 177–8, 202
Dance, George 314
Darby, Elizabeth (Mary’s sister) 9
Darby, George (Mary’s brother) 10, 14, 27–8, 39, 46, 322–3, 325–6
Darby, Hester (nee Vanacott) (Mary’s mother) 255
background 9
death 312
marriage 9, 10, 14, 15–16
and Mary’s acting career 20–1, 26, 90
relationship with Mary 13
and son-in-law 27–9, 33, 34–5
Darby, John (Mary’s brother) 9, 14, 46, 90, 253, 271
Darby, Mary see Robinson, Mary
Darby, Nicholas (Mary’s father) 7–8, 19–20, 21, 90, 145–6, 170
abandonment of family 15–16
death 255
lives openly with mistress 20
marriage 9, 10, 14, 15–16
scheme to establish whale fishery on Labrador 14–15, 16, 19
travelling and trading in Newfoundland 10, 13–14
Darby, William (Mary’s brother) 14, 15
De Coigny, Madame 175–6
De Loutherbourg, Philip 76
De Quincey, Thomas Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 288
Death and Dissection, Funeral Procession and Will, of Mrs Regency, The 261
Della Cruscans 263–4, 267–8, 271, 273–4, 280, 315, 344
Delphini, Signor 190
Derby, Countess of 131
Derby, Earl of 97, 161, 330
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of 118–19, 122, 127, 128, 281, 361, 392
and election campaign (1784) 238
and fashion 204, 205, 206
friendship with Mary 70
and Mary’s acting career 75, 89
as Mary’s literary patron 17, 69–70
view of Prince of Wales 131
Dickinson, William 187
Discovery, The 87
Dorset, Duke of 155
Downman, John 186
Drury Lane theatre 74, 75–7, 98, 310
backstage 77
design 76–7
rebuilding of by Kemble 329
seen as Opposition’s theatre 105
Duncannon, Lady 281
East India Company 236, 238
Edwards, Molly 44
Effusions of Love 245
Egan, Pierce
The Mistress of Royalty 421
election (1784) 238–41
Eliot, Grace Dalrymple see Dally the Tall
Eliott, Sir John 234
Englefield Cottage 362, 396–7
Engleheart, George 186
English Review 280–1, 299
Essex, Lady 213
Este, Reverend Charles 266–7
False Friend, The 330, 364–8, 371 Farren, Elizabeth (later Duchess of Derby) 86, 87, 97, 161, 328, 330
fashion 27
Mary as icon of and innovator 27–8, 48, 155, 170, 178–9, 190–1, 203–9, 214, 378–9, 401
Female Jockey Club 324
Fenwick, Eliza 396, 397
Fitzgerald, George 51, 52, 54, 62–3
Fitzherbert, Mrs 255, 312
Flaxman, John 393
Fleet prison 63, 64
Florence Miscellany, The 263
Florizel and Perdita 100
royal command performance 1779) 89, 101, 105–9, 110–11 Ford, Richard 109
Fox, Charles James 97, 105, 131, 188, 195–7, 223, 315
affair with Mary 2, 196–7, 9–200
and Armistead 201, 216, 221, 424
background 195
caricatures of 156, 217–19, 218, 237, 238
coalition with North 215–16, 218, 219, 221
and election campaign (1784) 238, 240–1
as Foreign Minister 218
and French Revolution 291
and India Bill 236–7
and Prince of Wales 196, 215
role as intermediary between the Prince and Mary 215, 217, 230
Frederick, Duke of York 107, 124, 125, 148, 149, 153
French Revolution 270, 271, 272–3, 290–1, 292–3, 304, 309
Gainsborough, Thomas 2, 168–9, 186, 192
Garrick, David 1, 11, 21, 24–5, 33–4, 74–5, 76, 79–8o, 100, 400
General Advertiser 80
Genest, John 330
George III, King 166–7, 196, 216
and India Bill 237
and political affairs 237, 238
rebellious behaviour towards by son 148–9
and son’s relationship with Mary 130, 139, 166–7
suffering from porphyria 260–1
and theatre 105–6
Gifford, William 273, 326
Gillray, James 197, 198–9, 200, 217, 354
Godwin, William 3, 287, 350, 379, 420
biography of Wollstonecraft 368
Caleb W
illiams 226
correspondence with Mary in final years 405–8
Fleetwood 350
friendship with Mary 342–4, 372, 405
marriage to Wollstonecraft 351
pen-portrait of Mary for Public Characters 391–2
Goldsmith, Oliver 25
Gordon, Lord George 127
Graham, Dr James 159, 219–22, 220, 355
Greatheed, Bertie 263
Grimaldi, William 186
Gunning, Elizabeth 399
Hamilton, Mary 110, 111–13, 115–16
Hamlet 84
Hanger, Colonel 257
Hanway, Hanway 32, 62, 309
Hanway, Louisa 309
Hanway, Mary Ann 309
Hardenburg, Countess von 159–60
Harris, Elizabeth 43, 44, 92
Harris, Howel 43
Harris, Thomas 27, 33, 36, 42, 43–5, 57, 58–9, 60
‘Harvest Home’ 410
Hastings, Warren 236
‘Haunted Beach, The’ 270, 380, 411, 412
Hawkins, Laetitia 64, 132, 226, 341
Haymarket theatre 86
Hays, Mary 250, 343, 349, 396
Hazlitt, William 273, 330
Henley, Robert see Northington, Lord
Herbert, Henry (Earl of Pembroke) 71
Hervey, Mrs 20
History of the Campaigns 253, 254, 257
Hoadly, Benjamin 87
Hood, Admiral 238, 241
Hopkins, Priscilla 12, 51, 73–4, 82, 98
Hopkins, William 80
Hoppner, John 2, 186, 188–9, 208, 214–15, 346, 425
Horton, Anne 81
Hotham, Colonel 161, 162, 163, 164, 165–6, 167
Hubert de Sevrac 347–8
Hull, Thomas 21
Imlay, Fanny 373
Inchbald, Elizabeth 343
Inconstant, The 99
India 236–7
Irish Widow, The 99, 126
‘Jasper’ (poem) 379–80
Jasper (novel) 270, 401–2
Johnson, Dr Samuel 21
Jordan, Dora 309, 310, 323, 330, 332, 333, 378
Joseph Andrews 84
Kate of Aberdeen 309–10
Keats, John 289
Kemble, Fanny 343
Kemble, John Philip 12, 310, 325, 328, 329
King, Charlotte (later Dacre) 42