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| 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) Found 1:
¶ 3 William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1:
¶ 6 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam” in The Examiner (26 September 1819) 620-21 Found 1:
¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “The Quarterly Review and Revolt of Islam (Continued)” in The Examiner (3 October 1819) 635-36 Found 1:
¶ 1 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:
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