by Paula Byrne
King, John 53
correspondence with Mary 37–42
Letters from Perdita to a Certain Israelite 37–8, 55, 56, 68–9, 150–1, 271
as man of culture 40–1
King Lear 87
Klopstock, Friedrich Messiah 395
Lade, Sir John 96–7, 115, 119, 120, 122
Lade, Lady Letty 97
Lady’s Magazine 155, 206, 207–8
Lady’s Monthly Museum 388
Lambert, Sir John 171–2
‘Lascar, The’ 385
‘Laurel of Liberty’ (Merry) 271–2
Lauzun, Duke of 175–7, 253
Lawrence, Thomas 186
Lebrun, Madame Vigée 204
Lee, Nathaniel 81
Leeds, Duke of 339–40
Leigh, Mrs 19
‘Letter to a Friend on leaving Town’ 67–8
Letter to the Women of England, A 16, 84, 212, 351, 369–71, 378
Letters from Perdita to a Certain Israelite (King) 37–8, 55, 56, 68–9, 150–1, 271
Lewis, ‘Monk’ 423
Licensing Act (1737) 75
Linley, Elizabeth 74
Linley, Mary 88
Linley, Thomas 86
Lister 244–5
London 22–3, 82–3
Catholic uprisings (1780) 127
London Chronicle 333
‘London’s Summer Morning’ 23
Lorrington Academy 16–17
Lorrington, Meribah 16, 17, 285
Louis XVI, King
execution of 309
Lucky Escape, The 85
Lyrical Ballads 65, 383–4
Lyrical Tales 65, 358, 383, 384–6, 393, 398, 399, 414–15
Lyttelton, Lord 50, 51, 52, 53–4, 55–6, 63
Mad Jemmy 285, 286, 288
Mahomet 86–7
Malden, Lord (George Capel) 109–10
affair with Mary 37, 119, 120, 122, 134, 138, 142, 144, 145, 192, 193–4
death 424
ending of affair with Mary and annuity arrangement 194–5
as go-between between Prince of Wales and Mary 113–14, 119, 124
and negotiations over Prince’s love letters 162–6
‘Maniac, The’ 285–6, 287, 288–9, 414
Manners, Charles (Duke of Rutland) 96
Manners, Frances (Countess of Tyrconnel) 49
Marie Antoinette 173–5, 204, 291–2, 309, 312
Marshall, James 409
Mathias, T.J. 354–5
Mattocks, Isabella 95
Memoirs of Antonina 291
Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson, Written by Herself 8, 13, 25, 30, 96, 382, 406, 421–2
Memoirs of Perdita 18, 55, 96, 122, 159, 179, 193–4, 244, 382
Merry, Robert 263, 264, 265, 266, 343, 355–6
‘Laurel of Liberty’ 271–2
Meyer, Jeremiah 186
Middleton, Lady 281
Miniature Picture, The 99, 125–6
Modern Manners 312–13
Moira, Earl of 227, 322, 386
Monody to the Memory of the late Queen of France 312
Montagu, Elizabeth 266
Montgomery, Anne (Marchioness Townshend) 49
Monthly Magazine 382, 399
Monthly Mirror 337
Monthly Review 280, 298
More, Hannah 11, 12, 17, 25, 257
Morning Chronicle 80, 117–18, 126, 206
Morning Herald 18, 138, 146, 148, 153, 154, 159, 164, 165, 169–70, 178, 202
Morning Post 80, 128, 134–5, 138, 160–1, 164, 239, 245–6, 334, 352, 357, 378, 419–20
Murphy, Arthur 389
Napier, Lady Sarah 200
Napoleon Bonaparte 362
Natural Daughter, The 372–6
Nobody 325, 328, 330–4
North, Lord 166–7, 196, 216, 218, 219, 221, 236
Northcote, James 21, 187, 388
Northington, Lord (Robert Henley) 20, 49, 51, 63, 188
O’Byrne, Captain 51, 63
‘Ode, Inscribed to the Infant Son of S.T. Coleridge’ 412
‘Ode to Apathy’ 289
‘Ode to Health’ 289
‘Ode to the Nightingale’ 281
‘Ode to Rapture’ 235
‘Ode to Valour’ 281–2, 364
Old Bachelor, The 84
Opera House 213
Opie, Amelia 350
Oracle 266–7, 274, 277–8, 297, 302–3, 309, 311–12, 357
Owen, William 186
Paine, Thomas
The Rights of Man 291
Pantheon (Oxford Street) 48–9
Parry, Catherine 51, 67
Parsons, William 263
‘Perdita chemise’ 203–6
Phillips, Sir Richard 382, 390, 421
Philosophism 355
Pigott, Charles 323–4
Pindar, Peter see Wolcot, John
Pitt the Younger, William 197, 237, 238
Plaidy, Jean
Perdita’s Prince 425
Plain Dealer, The 87–8, 98
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1775) 66–8
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1791) 275–9, 280–2
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1793) 289, 305–7, 314–16
Poetical Epistle from Florizel to Perdita, The 146–7, 150, 151
Poetical Works 282, 361–2, 422
‘Poet’s Garret, The’ 289–90
Polwhele, Richard 355
Poole, Tom 414
‘Poor, Singing Dame, The’ 385–6
Porter, Jane 174, 260, 390, 395, 397, 398, 403, 404, 420, 429
Porter, Robert Ker 390–1
Portland, Duke of 216
Powell, William 11–12, 333
Pratt, Samuel Jackson 274–5, 348, 356, 398, 425–6
‘Progress of Liberty, The’ 342–3, 371
Promenade: or, Theatre of Beauty, The 260
Public Advertiser 192
Public Characters of (1800–1801) 391
Quarterly Review 273
Radcliffe, Ann 293, 296
Rambler’s Magazine 154, 206, 216–17, 232, 244, 246, 259
Randall, Ann 212, 369
Ranelagh pleasure gardens 47–8
Regency crisis (1789) 260–1
Regency crisis (1808) 420–1
Relapse, The 81
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 1–2, 182–3
death 300
Mary’s poem on 182–4
popularity of paintings 187
portrait of Tarleton 184, 185–6, 192
portraits of Mary 21, 184, 186–7, 192, 232–3, 346, 392
Richard III 84
Richardson, Samuel
Sir Charles Grandison 54
‘Robinson Hat’ 208
Robinson, Henry Crabb 357
Robinson, Maria Elizabeth (daughter)
61, 65, 253, 254, 300, 304–5, 320, 348
birth 59–60
continuation of Prince’s annuity to after mother’s death 420
later years and death 424
literary career 321
and mother’s Memoirs 260, 268, 269, 415
nursing of mother during final months 396
publishing of mother’s poems 422
The Shrine of Bertha 321–2, 323
suspected consumption 262–3
Robinson, Mary
ACTING CAREER 1, 20–1
benefits 82, 84–5, 87
breeches roles 87–8
debut role as Juliet at Drury Lane 75, 76–81
decision to marry and relinquish early hopes of 30, 33
family disapproval 90
flourishing of 117
last performance and retirement 126
meeting with Garrick and tutoring of by 24, 25–6, 75
patronage of by Duchess of Devonshire 75, 89
Perdita role and royal command performance 89, 100–1, 105–9
reactivating of 73–4
reviews 80–1, 82, 84, 87, 98, 100, 117–18, 126
roles played at Drury Lane 81
, 83, 84–5, 86–8, 98–101, 117–18, 125–6
and Sheridan 95–6
LITERARY CAREER 2, 16, 232, 254–5, 260
‘Anecdotes of Distinguished Personages’ 382
Angelina 90–1, 290, 335–9
autobiographical details in works 356, 364–5
bad press and feelings of failure at 326
criticism of by anti-Jacobin critics 354–5
earnings from 300, 320, 358
essays on ‘Society and Manners in the Metropolis of England’ 396, 399–401
The False Friend 330, 364–8, 371
favourite themes in works 353
Hubert de Sevrac 347–8
influence of opium in novels 290
influence of Wollstonecraft 351
interest in conflict between reason and passion 367
international success 341, 352
Jasper 270, 401–2
joint work with Tarleton (History of the Campaigns) 253, 254, 257
A Letter to the Women of England 16, 84, 212, 351, 369–71, 378
literary acquaintances 348–50
Memoirs see Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson, Written by Herself
The Natural Daughter 372–6
Nobody 325, 328, 330–4
and opera Kate of Aberdeen 309–10
patronage of by Duchess of Devonshire 17, 69–70
political commentary in novels 296
pseudonyms written under 2, 267, 358, 369, 378
radicalism of 344, 355
regarded as key literary figure 371–2
remaking of herself as ‘philosophical’ author 356–7
reviews 298–300, 337, 347–8
revival of interest in works of in 1990s 424–5
The Sicilian Lover 335, 339–41, 362
Sylphid essays 381–2
Vancenza; or, the Dangers of Credulity 293–7, 298–300, 320
Walsingham 221–2, 274, 290, 321, 347, 352–6, 358–9, 360, 369, 426 The Widow, or a Picture of Modern Times 188, 316–20
writing of Memoirs 3, 382–3
POETRY 2, 16, 50, 174
admiration of Wordsworth 383
Ainsi va le Monde 182–4, 272, 280
‘All Alone’ 384
Captivity, a Poem; And Celadon and Lydia, a Tale 69, 84
as a celebrity poet 312–13
contributions to monthly magazines 388–9
contributions to Morning Post 334, 352, 378, 410
and Della Cruscans 267–8, 273–4, 344
and emotional state whilst in Brighton 268–9
engaged with Coleridge as ‘poetical correspondent’ for Morning Post 357–8
as ‘English Sappho’ 280, 344, 345, 360–1
on fashion 209–10
‘Harvest Home’ 410
‘The Haunted Beach’ 270, 380, 411, 412
influence of opium 285–6, 288, 289–90
‘Jasper’ 379–80
‘The Lascar’ 385
‘Letter to a Friend on leaving Town’ 67–8
‘London’s Summer Morning’ 23
Lyrical Tales 65, 358, 383, 384–6, 393, 398, 399, 414–15
‘The Maniac’ 285–6, 287, 288–9, 414
on Marie Antoinette 309, 312
Modern Manners 312–13
‘Ode to Apathy’ 289
‘Ode to Health’ 289
‘Ode to the Nightingale’ 281
‘Ode to Rapture’ 235
‘Ode to Valour’ 281–2, 364
and Oracle 267, 274, 311–12
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1775) 66–8
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1791) 275–9, 280–2
Poems by Mrs Robinson (1793) 289, 305–7, 314–16
poems for Oracle 300, 302–3
poems written for Coleridge 412–14
Poetical Works 282, 361–2, 422
poetry editor of Morning Post 278, 396
‘The Poet’s Garret’ 289–90
‘The Poor, Singing Dame’ 385–6
‘The Progress of Liberty’ 342–3, 371
publishing of lyrics in The World under name of ‘Laura’ 264–5, 266
publishing of poems by daughter after death 422
reviews 272, 280–1, 313, 315–16
Sappho and Phaon 344–6
Sight, The Cavern of Woe, and Solitude 311
‘The Snow Drop’ 359–60
‘Sonnet to the Evening’ 258
sonnet to the Prince of Wales 308
‘Stanzas in Season’ 240
‘Stanzas to a Friend, who desired to have my Portrait’ 305–7
‘Stanzas Written between Dover and Calais’ 302–3
‘Tabitha Bramble’ poetic persona 358
Valentine’s Day poem 297–8
written in final months 410
PERSONAL LIFE
and abandoned corpse incident 269–70, 285
admirers and suitors 26, 49–50, 52, 54, 92–5, 96–7, 172
affair with Fox 2, 196–7, 199–200
affair with Lauzun 175–6
affair with Malden 37, 119, 120, 122, 134, 138, 142, 144, 145, 192, 193–4
affair and relationship with Prince of Wales 1, 3, 110–13, 114–15, 117, 119, 122–3, 124–5, 131–2, 134, 136, 326, 392
affair and relationship with Tarleton 190, 193, 211, 212, 214, 222–3, 235, 251–2, 253–4, 270, 293, 297, 300, 305, 313, 324, 344, 350
ambivalence felt towards father 15
appearance 10, 17, 21, 133
arrest and held in custody due to debts 389–90
attacks on by caricaturists and pamphleteers 108, 136–7, 140, 156, 188, 197, 198, 217–18, 218, 219, 220–1, 224–5, 231–2, 234, 238, 242–5, 246, 261
attempt to seduce by Lyttelton 50, 51, 52, 54, 55–6
attempted abduction of by Fitzgerald 54
bankruptcy and auctioning of belongings 169, 247
in Bath 283–4, 285, 335
beauty and attributes 24, 34, 44, 187, 212, 215
birth 8–9, 429–30
birth of daughter 34, 59–60
birth and death of second daughter 83
caring for daughter when ill with suspected consumption 262–3
carriages 195, 210–11, 223–4
celebrity of 1–2, 129–30, 133, 179, 215
character 29, 199, 392
childhood and upbringing 10, 13, 20, 36
connection with Dr James Graham 219
correspondence with Godwin in final months 405–8
correspondence with King and publication of 37–42, 55, 56, 68–9, 150–1, 271
courtship with and engagement to Robinson 26–9
death and burial 229, 416–17
and death of father 255
and death of mother 312
in debtors’ prison with husband 64–5, 68
devotion to daughter and upbringing of 62, 64, 65
dress and fashion innovator and icon 27–8, 48, 155, 170, 178–9, 190–1, 203–9, 214, 378–9, 401
education 11, 12–13, 16–17, 19, 20, 257
and education of women 339, 353, 371, 425
and election campaign (1784) 239–43, 245, 370
encounter with Brereton 92–5
ending of affair with Malden and annuity arrangement 194–5
ending of affair with Prince of Wales 139–42, 144–5
ending of relationship with Tarleton 350–1, 368
feminist sentiments 368–71
financial problems and debts 144, 158, 161, 169, 232, 245, 247, 300, 325, 326, 351, 389, 409
forged letters published between Prince and 151–2
in France 170, 171–8
and French Revolution 272, 291–2, 292–3
friendship with Godwin 342–3, 372, 405
grave 425–7
and husband’s family 42–5, 58–9, 60
and husband’s financial affairs and debts 37, 56–7
ill-health 351, 377, 387, 404, 411
influence on taste 209
lameness and immobility after ‘accident’ 232, 235, 247, 253–4, 257, 283, 326, 381
and Marie Antoinette 173–5, 291–2
marriage and relationship with Robinson 30–1, 32–3, 34–5, 41, 52–3, 83, 92, 136, 155–6, 211
negotiations over Prince’s love letters and eventual payoff 161–7
negotiations with Prince over bond and payment of annuity 216, 230–1, 235, 326, 387, 390
obituary of in Morning Post 419–20
Opera House box 213–14, 215, 234
and opium 284, 285, 328
parental background 9, 257
pen-portrait of in Public Characters by Godwin 391–2
politics and political campaigner 2, 218, 219, 239–42, 259
portrait of by Hoppner 188–9, 208, 214–15, 346, 425
portraits of by Gainsborough 2, 168–9, 186, 192
portraits of by Reynolds 21, 184, 186–7, 192, 232–3, 346, 392
portraits of by Romney 167–8, 186, 192
press hostility towards 37, 134–5, 136–8, 154, 160–1
press interest and publicity surrounding affair with Prince of Wales 128–30
relationship with her servants 121–2
residences in London 46–7, 82, 131–2, 194, 313–14, 379
resides at Aix-la-Chapelle 253–4, 256
resides at St Amand les Eaux 257–8
retirement to Englefield Cottage and final months 395–7
return to Bristol and homecoming 35–6
rheumatic fever 228–9, 234, 246, 247, 254, 392
ride to Dover in pursuit of Tarleton and ‘accident’ 1, 227–30
rivalry with Armistead 147–8, 149
self-promotion 23, 192, 222
social life and circle in London 47–51, 62–3, 95
social philosophy 342–3
supporters of 135–6, 138–9
travels on Continent 251–9, 260, 302, 303–4
treatment of in Rambler’s Magazine 217, 244
wit 179, 212
Robinson, Sophia (daughter) 83
Robinson, Thomas (husband) 36, 155–6, 304
arrest of and imprisonment 61–2, 63–4
courtship with Mary and engagement 26–9
in debtors prison and discharge 71, 72
financial affairs and debts 47, 52, 53, 56, 56–7, 60, 63, 73, 158
infidelities 52–3, 56, 71,, 87, 93–4, 123, 136
lies over origins and inheritance 33
living in London 47, 51
marriage to and relationship with Mary 30–1, 32, 33, 34–5, 35, 41
opposition to Mary’s acting career 29–30
visits to father 42–5, 92
‘Robinson Vest’ 208
Robinson, William (brother of Thomas) 304–5
Romney, George 2, 155, 167–8, 186
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 318
Rowlandson, Thomas 253
