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Mary Robinson [née Darby] [Perdita]
(1758-1800)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
NRA:    Robinson Mary (1758-1800) nee Darby Actress Author and Royal Mistress called Perdita
DNB:    Robinson [née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1756/1758?-1800), author and actress
LBT ID: MaRobin1800    VIAF ID: 9888105    LOC ID: n83122576
B/BAP:   1758-11-27
DIED:   1800-12-26
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
English actress and poet; shortly after her marriage she became the mistress of the young Prince of Wales, who afterwards supplied her with a pension. She was a prominent Della Cruscan poet, crippled in her later years.
REFERENCES TO Mary Robinson [née Darby] [Perdita]:
William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 10 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)
Found 1:   ¶ 6   
Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 21 May 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)
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William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)
Found 1:   ¶ 6   
Robert Southey, “Memoir: My Mother,” [1820] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)
Found 1:   ¶ 4   
Lady Morgan to an anonymous correspondent, 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)
Found 1:   ¶ 2   
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