Though denounced by the anti-Jacobin poet and theologian Rev. Richard Polwhele in his The Unsex'd Females: A Poem (1798) as a radical and follower of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson was not primarily known as a reformer or an activist in her...

From staff reports Portland Press Herald (Maine) 04-01-2007 Gardiner salutes hometown poet Robinson Byline: From staff reports Edition: FINAL Section: Audience Edwin Arlington Robinson, born in Alna in 1869, faced financial straits before he was able to earn success as a poet....

A Conversation With the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights BY KAREEM FAHIM I When Mary Robinson, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, announced in recent weeks that she will leave her post in September, it was widely understood as the result...

Nelson Mandela celebrated his 89th birthday Wednesday by joining with other Nobel peace laureates, politicians and development experts to form a "council of elders" dedicated to fostering peace and resolving global crises.The event kicked off with about 250 people, including former President Jimmy Carter, singing...

In the following essay, Cross presents Lyrical Tales as an effort by Robinson to assert “her literary debt and her poetic autonomy” by linking it with Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and exposing the issues of literary reputation and female authorship.

In the following essay, Shaffer considers gender panic, or cultural anxiety over gender boundaries and sexualized bodies, at the end of the eighteenth century, and reads Mary Robinson's novel Walsingham for its depiction of female cross-dressing and gender identity.

In the following essay, Cullens examines Mary Robinson's novel Walsingham in light of her Memoirs.