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To Coleridge She Was 'a Woman Of Undoubted Genius', To Others She Was Simply 'the Most Interesting Woman Of Her Age'. She Was In Her Time The Darling Of The London Stage, Mistress To The Most Powerful Men In England, A Renowned Feminist Thinker, And A Best-selling Author More Famous For Her Poetry Than Wordsworth. But Though She Was One Of The Most Flamboyant Women Of The Late-eighteenth Century, Mary Robinson's Life Was Also Scarred By Reversals Of Fortune. After Being Abandoned By Her Merchant Father, Who Left England To Establish A Fishery Among The Canadian Esquimo, Mary Was Married, At Age Fifteen, To Thomas Robinson. His Dissipated Lifestyle Landed The Couple And Their Baby In Dentors' Prison, Where Mary Wrote Her First Book Of Poetry And Met Lifelong Friend Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire. On Her Release, Mary Quickly Became One Of The Most Popular Actresses Of The Day, Famously Playing Perdita In The Winter's Tale For A Rapt Audience That Included The Prince Of Wales, Who Fell Madly In Love With Her. She Later Used His Copious Love Letters For Blackmail. After Being Paralyzed, Apparently Following A Miscarriage, She Remade Herself As A Writer. In This Biography Paula Byrne

Author

Byrne, Paula

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007164608

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.69 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14