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The obituary that appeared in the Sun on 31 December 1800, five days after her death, does not mention any of Mary Robinson’s compositions except for her poetry.
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The most sexually explicit representation in print of Robinson is the 1784 Memoirs of Perdita. In addition to countless newspaper columns and satirical prints, including most notably Gillray’s The Thunderer (1782), which depicts Robinson being vaginally impaled, Robinson as Perdita also figures in Satire on the Present Times (1780), A Poetical Epistle from Florizel to Perdita (1781), Letters from Perdita to a Certain Israelite (1781), The Celestial Beds (1781), The Vis-à -Vis of Berkeley Square (1783), and The Amours of Carlo Khan (1789).
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Robinson, D. (2011). The English Sappho and the Legitimate Sonnet. In: The Poetry of Mary Robinson. Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118034_4
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