"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I dislike satire in general, but this appears to me one of the cleverest books I ever met with, and indeed this is the general opinion respecting it... I have read Robinson on the "Illuminati". It is said by people wel-informed on the subject to be a true representation.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Lines - To him that will understand them' 'Thou art no more my bosom's Friend;/...' 'Mrs Robinson'
Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself.
The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but
there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were
inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he
does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her
inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely
unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way
antagonistic to it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend brought me Robinsons Ecclesiastical Researches. he has as much wit as Jortin & yet never ceases to be serious, & with erudition at least equal to Mosheim, possesses a candour & discrimination which Mosheim wanted. have you read George Dyers life of Robert Robinson? it is the history of a very extraordinary man told with infinite simplicity by one as extraordinary as himself.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] The next subject of praise [following Fitzgerald's compliments on Robinson's baby daughter] was my poetry [...] Mr. Fitzgerald took up the proof sheet and read one of the pastorals.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Robert Fitzgerald Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs
The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey,
15 May 1883:
'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enough written [...]
But I confess to being a little disappointed, as my knowledge of that great woman is not one
jot increased by anything Miss R. has written. I prefer Mrs Gaskell's work as being more
versatile; Mr Reid's as being more vivacious, and Mr Bayne as being more stern and real
[goes on to criticise 'the constant mention of Branwell Bronte' as 'the great blot in the book']
[...]
'It's a pity she did not make her [Emily Bronte] more of a psychological study, and gone a
little deeper into the recesses of her mind [...] We owe Miss Robinson a debt of gratitude if
only for the beautiful poem she has unearthed and given in at the end of her work,
commencing "No coward Soul is mine" —
'It is new to me, at least I don't remember it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Biddell Print: Book
'Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
'Another book: Missing Believed Prisoner, is by a South African captured at Sidi Rezegh. Those
awful marches through the desert with no food or water. The Camp with starvation rations. Then
the Red Cross parcels and all they meant. I never realized it before.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vere Hodgson Print: Book
