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Perdita

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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).

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  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

 

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