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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mary Robinson"”.
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
… her means in an era of exploding print culture: Mary Robinson found herself portrayed incongruously in motley of mediums. While the leading portrait artists of the day, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, were painting dazzling portraits of Mrs. Robinson, she found …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… of the following patroness is examined: Anne Robinson; Lady Isabella Finch; Lady Elizabeth Hastings; Sophia Baddeley; George Anne Bellamy and Teresa Cornelys. The second section explores the patronage of married women, namely Jemima Yorke, Marchioness Grey; Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth; …
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… life that ghosts every text.As William Blake, Mary Robinson and Octavia Butler constitute the textual slave body they sharpen the stakes in the power and risk of marginal literary possession. Through foreclosure and comics strategies, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry and Randall Kenan reveal the …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English Jacobin …
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Genteel revolutionaries: the lives of Anna and Thomas Haslam
… no man can be truly free." These words spoken by Mary Robinson as President of Ireland are an echo of the principles to which the Haslams dedicated their lives and are, perhaps, a tribute to their efforts.
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
<p>Actress studies has become “a truly interdisciplinary field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, …