ABSTRACT
Isolated in Englefield cottage at the end of her life, British poet and novelist Mary Robinson may well have felt that others were not drawn to her. Despite her misgivings, however, she found many interlocutors of "congenial, sympathetic intuition" during, and even after, her life. Robinson's dialogues took place not only in her published poetry and fiction, but also in the letters and the journalism through which she established her literary reputation. She hoped these dialogues would carry her into literary posterity. In charting Robinson's genesis as an author in dialogue with other authors, the author highlights not just her influence on Romantic writers but also the strong correlation between her own development and that of Romanticism. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book would not be possible without the extensive prior work of Robinson scholars.
