A Note on Sources and Symbols

Unless otherwise indicated, my citations of Robinson’s works are

to the Pickering & Chatto edition of the Works of Mary Robinson, by

volume and page and, in the case of poetry, line number(s). In my

edition of the poetry, volumes 1 and 2 of the Works, I present the

poems as they first appeared. When I quote from or refer to items in

newspapers, I have provided the title of the newspaper and the date;

these items do not appear in the list of works cited.

Throughout this book, when discussing poetic form, I designate

the shape of a stanza by rhyme scheme and line length. For syllabic

verse, the subscript numeral indicates the total number of syllables

in the lines that precede it; for accentual or foot verse, the numeral

refers to the number of stresses. I follow Brennan O’Donnell’s

practice (16).

Also, I generally use quotation marks when I refer to a pseudonym

as a signature but do not when discussing the pseudonym as an avatar

(see chapter one).

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