4. Mary Robinson and the Wreath of Fame

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-144
Keyword(s):  
Mary Robinson

Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
Flower Scent ◽  
Single Flower

This chapter focuses on a single flower scent—the tuberose—strongly associated with the fragrance of Victorian decadence. Contrasting with the more delicate scent of the violet explored in Chapter 2 is the powerful perfume of the tuberose, an exotic hothouse flower, its fragrance evoking the body and decay. Starting with Shelley, this chapter tracks this heady fragrance through a range of texts to concentrate on three poems by late Victorian minor poets—Mark André Raffalovich, Mary Robinson, and Theodore Wratislaw—and shows how the scent of the tuberose is bound up with dangerous or voluptuous pleasures, with love, eroticism, criminality, and death.

Climate Justice

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
To Come ◽  
Run Up ◽  
High Level

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate justice center stage in global discussions. In the run up to Paris, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, instituted the Climate Justice Dialogue. The editors of this volume, an economist and a philosopher, served on the High Level Advisory Committee of the Climate Justice Dialogue. They noted the overlap and mutual enforcement between the economic and philosophical discourses on climate justice. But they also noted the great need for these strands to come together to support the public and policy discourse. This volume is the result.

The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame. Daniel Robinson.

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-294
Author(s):  
Ashley Cross
Keyword(s):  
Mary Robinson

"The Duchess", Mary Robinson, and Georgiana's Social Network

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mary Robinson

scholarly journals Lord Byron’s Feminist Canon: Notes toward Its Construction

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Douglass
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
Madame De Stael ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Charlotte Dacre ◽  
Joanna Baillie ◽  
Hannah Cowley

Abstract Lord Byron took a highly ambivalent attitude toward female authorship, and yet his poetry, letters, and journals exhibit many proofs of the power of women’s language and perceptions. He responded to, borrowed from, and adapted parts of the works of Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Lee, Madame de Staël, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, Joanna Baillie, Lady Caroline Lamb, Mary Robinson, and Charlotte Dacre. The influence of women writers on his career may also be seen in the development of the female (and male) characters in his narrative poetry and drama. This essay focuses on the influence upon Byron of Lee, Inchbald, Staël, Dacre, and Lamb, and secondarily on Byron’s response to intellectual women like Lady Oxford, Lady Melbourne, as well as the works of male writers, such as Thomas Moore, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth, who affected his portrayal of the genders.

Interview with Mary Robinson

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (877) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The World

AbstractMary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990–1997), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997–2002), and current President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. As an academic (Trinity College Law Faculty), legislator, and barrister, she has always sought to use law as an instrument for social change. The recipient of numerous honours and awards throughout the world, Mary Robinson is a member of The Elders, co-founder and former Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, and Vice President of the Club of Madrid. She chairs the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) Board and the Fund for Global Human Rights and is Honorary President of Oxfam International, Patron of the International Community of Women Living with AIDS (ICW), and President of the International Commission of Jurists.

Feminism and the Position of Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Mary Hays ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Writing ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Intellectual Advancement

Feminism in its modern meanings attests to a movement for change in the social, economic and legal position of women. In the Romantic period, no such movement existed. There were, however, individual women whose voices, separately and together, suggest the existence of a commonality of feeling around the intellectual advancement of the female sex. This article examines writing by women on female education and sexual and social reform, focussing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, and Mary Lamb. It connects political writing and educational treatises to the novels and essays written by these women and it reflects on the shared concerns from which modern feminism emerged.

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