George Robinson

01 January 1736 - 01 January 1801

Standard Name: Robinson, George,, 1736 - 1801

Connections

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Leisure and Society	Ann Radcliffe	Soon after returning from their European travels, AR and her husband went to a literary dinner given by her publisher George Robinson to celebrate the success of The Mysteries of Udolpho. Elizabeth Inchbald was...
Publishing	Charlotte Smith	Her former publisher, the firm of Cadell , was just passing to a new generation. Both Thomas Cadells , father and son , and William Davies (partner of the latter) found Desmond too revolutionary: it...
Publishing	Mary Hays	The Analytical assignment was useful in bringing her into contact with Joseph Johnson (as her Monthly reviewing had made her acquainted with Richard Phillips and her Critical work had made her acquainted with George Robinson

Timeline

January 1756

The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, a monthly, began publishing under the editorship of Tobias Smollett , ostensibly by a Society of Gentlemen.

Mahon, Penny. “In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie”. Women’s Writing, Vol.

, No. 1, 2000, pp. 23-38.

35 n8

Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1763

George Robinson founded his publishing firm in Paternoster Row, London; it became G., G. J., and J. Robinson in 1784 when his son and brother joined as partners.

Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.

, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.

329n8

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