BIOGRAPHIES

Adams, Martin Ray. “Mrs. Mary Robinson: A Study of her Later Career.” In Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism: With Special Reference to the French Revolution, pp. 104-29. Lancaster, Penn.: Franklin and Marshall College Studies, 1947.

Provides a biographical sketch of Mary Robinson, focusing on her later years and her literary output.

Bass, Robert D. The Green Dragoon: The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1956, 386 p.

Chronicles the lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson and their romance.

Melville, Lewis. “Mary Anne (‘Perdita’) Robinson (née Darby): 1758-1800.” In More Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 173-96. London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1929.

Considers Mary Robinson's life, with particular attention to her career as an actress.

CRITICISM

Bolton, Betsy. “Romancing the Stone: ‘Perdita’ Robinson in Wordsworth's London.” ELH 64, no. 3 (fall 1997): 727-59.

Examines Mary Robinson's magazine and newspaper verse for its demonstration of the popular feminized culture of Romanticism and juxtaposes her work against Wordsworth's canonical Romantic literary tradition.

Craciun, Adriana. “Violence against Difference: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Robinson.” In Making History: Textuality and the Forms of Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Greg Clingham, pp. 112-41. London: Associated University Presses, 1998.

Considers Mary Robinson and Mary Wollstonecraft's representation of the sexual difference in the female's physical strength in relation to eighteenth-century feminism.

Fergus, Jan, and Janice Farrar Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820.” In Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 17, edited by John Yolton and Leslie Ellen Brown, pp. 191-207. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1987.

Examines the publishing careers of Mary Robinson and Amelia Alderson Opie for the ways in which the two women, and growing numbers like them, negotiated the difficulties of being both genteel and dependent upon their own writing for income.

Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Interrupting the Romance: Robinson, Hemans and Dead Men.” In The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830, pp. 103-21. New York: Macmillan Press, 2000.

Provides a close reading of Mary Robinson's gothic poetry for its use of violence and unhappy endings.

Robinson, Daniel. “Reviving the Sonnet: Women Romantic Poets and the Sonnet Claim.” European Romantic Review 6, no. 1 (summer 1995): 98-127.

Discusses the sonnet as the poetic form of choice for early Romantic women writers as a means to facilitate their legitimization as literary artists.

———. “From ‘Mingled Measure’ to ‘Ecstatic Measures’: Mary Robinson's Poetic Reading of ‘Kubla Khan.’” The Wordsworth Circle 26, no. 1 (winter 1995): 4-7.

Considers Mary Robinson's reading of Coleridge's “Kubla Khan” vis-à-vis her poem “To the Poet Coleridge.”

Setzer, Sharon. “Mary Robinson's Sylphid Self: The End of Feminine Self-Fashioning.” Philological Quarterly 75, no. 4 (fall 1996): 510-20.

Examines the series of poems known as “The Sylphid” in volume 3 of Mary Robinson's Memoirs for the ways in which Robinson escapes the boundaries of self and writes from the perspective of her own sylph, or “fictitious aerial being.”

Vargo, Lisa. “The Claims of ‘real life and manners’: Coleridge and Mary Robinson.” The Wordsworth Circle 26, no. 3 (summer 1995): 134-37.

Examines the literary relationship between Coleridge and Mary Robinson as more than a flirtation, but with a political character that influenced each poet's art.

Women's Writing 9, no. 1 (2002).

Provides critical analysis of Robinson from a variety of perspectives, most of the articles in the issue were first presented at a conference on Robinson held in September 2000.

Additional coverage of Robinson's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 158; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center.