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ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (17581800)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 424 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (17581800) , English actress and author, was born in Bristol on the 27th of November 1758, the daughter of a captain of a whaler named Darby. In 1774 she was married to
Thomas
  Robinson, a clerk in London, where her remarkable beauty brought her many attentions; and when, after two years of fashionable life, her husband was arrested for debt, she shared his imprisonment. She had been a precocious child, encouraged to write verses, and while in King's Bench prison she completed the collection published in two volumes in 1775. On her release, thanks to
Garrick
 , she secured an engagement at Drury Lane, making a successful first
appearance
  .as Juliet in 1776. On the 3rd of December 1779 she was Perdita in
Garrick
 's version of The Winter's Tale, and her beauty so captivated George, prince of Wales (afterwards
George IV.), then in his eighteenth year, that he began a correspondence with her, signing himself " Florizel." She was for about two years his mistress, but he then deserted her, even dishonouring his bond for 20,000, payable when he came of age, and left her to obtain a pension of 500 in exchange for it from Charles James Fox. Owing to the hostility of public
opinion
 , she feared to return to the stage, but she published some more volumes of her writings. There are numerous charming portraits of " Perdita "; two in the Wallace Collection, by Reynolds and by
Gainsborough
 , reveal " her grave, refined beauty." Hoppner, Cosway and
Romney
  also painted her.
See Memoirs of Mary Robinson, " Perdita," with introduction and notes by J. F. Molloy (1894).


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