Robinson, MARY

Robinson, MARY, poetess, born at Leamington, 27th February 1857, resided long in Italy, and in 1888 was married to M. Darmesteter, the French Orientalist, and became a resident in Paris. Amongst her poetical works are A Handful of Honeysuckle (1878), a translation of Euripides' Hippolytus (1881), The New Arcadia (1881), Songs, Ballads, and a Play (1886). She has also written Lives of Emily Brontë (1883) and Margaret of Angoulême (1880), and a historical work, The End of the Middle Ages (1889).