• Name: Robinson family,
• Gender: Unknown
• Birth Date:
• Death Date:

On the Robinsons in the Diary see Robinson.

Mary Shelley became friendly with the Robinson family sometime after her return to England in 1823. Joshua Robinson (1776-1842) was apparently a widower who had at least six daughters: Isabel (who became mrs Sholto Douglas, see Douglas entry), Rosa, Louisa, Julia, Ellen, and Elise Agnes. He also had a number of sons and grandsons whom MWS knew less well. They included George, Julian (at Cambridge with Percy Florence), Alfred, and Charles. The family are associated with residence at Park Cottage, Paddington.

All Robinsons 1801-1824 are taken to be referring to the publishing family as this is prior to Mary Shelley's - and, it is assumed, Godwin's - acquaintance with this other Robinson family. As the nature of the calls change from the more commercial 'call on' to 'dines at' at this period, it is deemed relatively easy to distinguish between the contacts with both families.

On 23 February 1811 there is a reference to a 'Mrs Robinson', which may possibly be connected to this family, but this has not been coded.

• DNB.
• The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987) p. 507, n. 5.

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