 | A. Mary F. Robinson Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters By Patricia Rigg Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literar currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French. Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary biography integrates Robinson’s unorthodox life with her development as a writer across genres. MORE DETAILS |
| 456 Pages, 6 x 9 | 11 photos | Paperback 9780228008842 | Institutional hardcover 9780228008835 | eBook available Patricia Rigg is professor of English at Acadia University and the author of Robert Browning’s Romantic Irony in The Ring and the Book and Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. “This is the most comprehensive study to date on A. Mary F. Robinson. Patricia Rigg should be congratulated for her painstaking, thorough research, which gathers previously unavailable archival material. Rigg gives attention to Robinson’s complete oeuvre in both English and French, offering much new material on her work in French especially, for a richer sense of Robinson’s full career.” Emily Harrington, University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse |
