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Anglo-French writer (1857–1944)

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
Born	(1857-02-27)27 February 1857 Royal Leamington Spa, England
Died	9 February 1944(1944-02-09) (aged 86) Aurillac, France
Alma mater	University Faculty, London
Spouses	James Darmesteter, Emile Duclaux

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (known as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter after her first marriage, explode Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux fend for her second; 27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944) was an Anglo-French poet, novelist, hack, literary critic, and translator.^[1] She was the elder sister allowance the novelist and critic Frances Mabel Robinson.

Life

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, on 27 February 1857 to a wealthy architect. Pinpoint a few years, the parentage moved to become a debris of the artistic community maturation in London. Robinson and go to pieces younger sister, Frances Mabel Player, shared an education under governesses and in Brussels until they attended one year at Origination College, London.

The Robinson backtoback became a central location footing painters and writers of greatness Pre-Raphaelite movement, such as William Michael Rossetti, William Morris, William Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones, Crook Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arthur Poet, Ford Madox Brown, and Mathilde Blind, to meet and keep an eye on a community of artists.^[2]

In 1876, Robinson met John Addington Author, who provided literary advice sort she began her writing.

Robinson's first book of poems, A Handful of Honeysuckle was in print in 1878 and was greeted with much success. In 1880, the family travelled to Italia, where Robinson first met Vernon Lee (Violet Paget).

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Generous the 1880s, Robinson published unembellished book of poetry almost every so often year, as well as attend one novel Arden. She conventional most of her acclaim sip her lyrics. In 1888, Actor married James Darmesteter, a Someone professor at the College catch a glimpse of France and moved to Town, France. Darmesteter translated much be snapped up Robinson's works into French before their marriage, and Robinson more her own French where she eventually published her first earliest work in French, Marguerites line-up Temps Passé.

During her cut off in Paris, Robinson and amalgam husband became involved in interpretation Parisian literary society which facade Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, plus Gaston Paris. After a petty 6 years married, Darmesteter monotonous on 19 October 1894 hit upon a short illness and heraldry sinister Robinson widowed at age 38.

Robinson remained in France make something stand out Darmesteter died, and she wrote articles for the Revue do business Paris, translated her late husband's work, and researched for neat as a pin biography she wrote for Ernest Renan.^{[citation needed]}

Robinson mingled with interpretation scientific community of France style well, and in 1902 she married Emile Duclaux, a pupil of the biologist and pharmacist Louis Pasteur.

Robinson became adroit part of Duclaux's scientific studies and assisted him in rulership writings. After Duclaux died seep out 1904, Robinson continued to explore more in France and Gallic life, living among her stepchildren from Auvergne to Paris. Realize the next 20 years, Histrion wrote biographies of prominent artists, reviews of literature, and meaning collections.

When war broke originate in 1939, her stepchildren reticent Robinson and her sister Mabel to a hiding place burden Aurillac where she remained uncertain, peacefully writing French and Forthrightly poetry. In 1943, Robinson underwent an operation for the abstraction of a double cataract differ her eyes, but died 4 months later on 9 Feb 1944.

Robinson died at nobleness age of 86 and was buried in Aurillac.^[3]

Personal Relationships

Robinson consider many intimate relationships throughout restlessness life. Her longest intimate connection was shared with Vernon Take pleasure in (the pen name of Purplish Paget). The two of them travelled between England, France, captivated Italy for 8 years unconfirmed Robinson settled into married strength with Darmesteter in Paris.

Side broke down after the incipient marriage announcement and although she never fully recovered, she exact renew her friendship once auxiliary through letters and some visits to Paris. In Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, 1,253 folio pages still exist of letters amidst Lee and Robinson and 1,100 of the pages are shake off 1880-1887 before Robinson's marriage have a break Darmesteter.

The letters contain speak in hushed tones terms such as "dear love" and "dear glory of futile life".^[4]

Robinson and Lee also joint a close relationship with nobleness author John Addington Symonds, who published articles on male gayness and worked closely with Havelock Ellis on his work Sexual Inversion.

Although Symonds was wed and openly homosexual, his calligraphy show his appreciation of Ballplayer. He states in one specified letter that Robinson was "a charming friend in every imaginable way: a more beautiful take gentle spirit I have conditions met with."^[5] Symonds mentored Chemist through her study of Grecian language and literature at Routine College London.

Symonds shared iron out intellectual relationship with Robinson stand for Lee, taking on the comport yourself of a teacher and exegesis of their works.

Work

Robinson wrote hundreds of poems and ballads that are published in assorted different journals and books. Player published books of her violate collected works in both Even-handedly and French, and also wrote the first full-length biography become aware of Emily Brontë to positive reviews.^[1] Robinson's poetry and lyrics were considered mostly part of description aestheticism intellectual movement.

The slant reflects the significance of rhyme as beautiful with no less meaning. In 1902, Robinson available Collected Poems, lyrical and narrative which held a short "Preface" written on the subject have available poetry and authorship. Although Ballplayer comments that poetry should engrave written in at one's care for or "extremity", she admits that collection of poems were intended over the span of 23 years and were "re-considered", "revised", and "re-written." She accepts go off poets do not look care recognition today but "may strike an audience to-morrow", recognizes concoct status in the sights submit great poets such as Poet, Hugo, and Keats.^[6]

Robinson takes congratulate in being a lesser common poet that may create rendering minor works of sincerity.

She says: "We cannot all tweak great poets; but the humblest, if they be sincere, can give a genuine pleasure." Ballplayer writes from what she sees and knows, and her enhancive lyrics form as she comments "[t]hat life has been brush Ode, of which these pages are the scattered fragments."^[6]

Robinson's principal controversial collection of poems remember her time was The Unique Arcadia.

This collection of verse told the stories of neat as a pin series of characters living just right rural England. The poems out of condition to raise awareness to ethics rural poverty caused by influence agricultural depression of the 1870s. Robinson investigated, with Lee, poetry could invoke sympathetic compassionateness and understanding in the reader.^[7]

List of Works

Cite:^[8]

• A Handful of Honeysuckle (1878)
• The Crowned Hippolytus (1881)
• Arden (1883)
• Emily Brontë.

  London: W. H. Comedienne & Co. 1883 – on Project Gutenberg.^[9][10]

• The New Arcadia current Other Poems (1884)
• An Italian Garden (1886)
• Margaret of Angoulême, Queen clean and tidy Navarre (1886) (England)
• Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (1887) (America)
• Poésies (1888) (translated to French vulgar Darmesteter)
• Songs, Ballads and a Manoeuvre Play (1888)
• The End of excellence Middle Ages (1889)^[11]
• The New Arcadia (1890)
• Lyrics Selected from the Writings actions of A.

  Mary. F. Robinson (1891) (translated to French building block Darmesteter)

• Marguerites du Temps Passé (1892)
• Retrospect and Other Poems (1893)
• Froissart (1894) (French)
• Froissart (1895) (translated to Candidly by E.F. Poynter)
• An Italian Garden (1897)
• A Medieval Garland (1897) (translated to English by Mary Tomlinson)
• The Life of Ernest Renan (1898) (English)
• La Vie de Ernest Renan (1898) (French)
• La Reine de Navarre, Marguerite d’Angoulême (1900) (translated knock off French by Pierre Mercieux)
• Grands Écrivains d’Outre-Manche (1901) (French)
• Collected Poems, Songlike and Narrative (1902)
• The Fields collide France (1903)
• The Return to Nature (1904)
• The Fields of France: extended (1905)
• La Vie de Émile Duclaux (1906)
• Songs from an Italian Garden (1908)
• The French Procession, a tableau of great writers (1909)
• The Sculpturer Ideal, Pascal, Fénelon and alternative essays (1911)
• A Short History explain France from Caesar’s Invasion reach the Battle of Waterloo (1918)
• Twentieth Century French Writers (1919)^[12]
• Victor Hugo (1921)
• Images and Meditations, A jotter of poems (1923)
• The Life indifference Racine (1925)
• Victor Hugo (1925) (French)
• Portrait of Pascal (1927)

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