Annabel Robinson

Though JEH came to rebel against her stepmother's staunchly Evangelical outlook, her thinking was nevertheless shaped by her early church experiences. Following attendance at Sunday services, she and her sisters were instructed to copy out...

JEH also became romantically involved with MacColl . He proposed marriage to her in the summer of 1891, but she rejected his offer. Biographer Annabel Robinson offers all kinds of possible reasons for this rejection...

The text received negative reviews; critics again attacked Harrison's use of philology and ethnology, for instance. A more recent critic, Annabel Robinson in 2002, also finds many shortcomings, arguing, for instance that Harrison uses her...

Recent critics, notably Mary Beard and Annabel Robinson , have considered the extent to which Harrison and several of her friends and colleagues built a myth of almost impregnable achievement and influence around her life's...

JEH received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson identifies...

Harrison was initially displeased with Rivingtons , her publisher, for printing the book under her full name: wanting her reputation to stand or fall on its own merits, she had expected it to appear under...

Remarkable among the contents is Homo Sum, Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist (the first two words of whose title are quoted from a famous pronouncement by the Roman dramatist Terence :...