After a brief 6 years married, Darmesteter died on 19 October 1894 from a short illness and left Robinson widowed at age 38.

[citation needed] Robinson mingled with the scientific community of France as well, and in 1902 she married Emile Duclaux, a student of the biologist and chemist Louis Pasteur.

After Duclaux died in 1904, Robinson continued to delve more in France and French life, living among her stepchildren from Auvergne to Paris.

When war broke out in 1939, her stepchildren moved Robinson and her sister Mabel to a hiding place in Aurillac where she remained safe, peacefully writing French and English poetry.

The two of them travelled between England, France, and Italy for 8 years until Robinson settled into married life with Darmesteter in Paris.

Lee broke down after the initial marriage announcement and although she never fully recovered, she did renew her friendship once more through letters and some visits to Paris.

Robinson published books of her own collected works in both English and French, and also wrote the first full-length biography of Emily Brontë to positive reviews.

In 1902, Robinson published Collected Poems, lyrical and narrative which held a short "Preface" written on the subject of poetry and authorship.

Robinson writes from what she sees and knows, and her aesthetic lyrics form as she comments "[t]hat life has been an Ode, of which these pages are the scattered fragments.