[2] Corinne was best friends with Edith Kermit Carow, her brother Theodore Roosevelt's second wife and later the First Lady of the United States.

However, the conflict between Corinne's parents' political loyalties did not prevent her from experiencing a privileged childhood, including the best schools and regular travel, or the formal debut into society expected of the daughters of prominent families.

Robinson began writing at an early age, through the encouragement of her friends, in particular Edith Wharton who helped critique her poetry.

[4] This volume was quickly followed by One Woman to Another and Other Poems (1914) dedicated to her daughter, also named Corinne, commemorating the loss of Robinson's brother Elliott and son, Stewart.

[11] Despite being a prominent Republican, Corinne voted for her fifth cousin and nephew-in-law Franklin when he ran for Governor of New York in 1928, and in 1932 when he was elected President of the United States.

[15] Their marriage produced four children:[16] Throughout the 1920s, Robinson's health failed her a number of times and she had a total of sixteen eye surgeries.

[23] Robinson died on February 17, 1933, age 71, of pneumonia, in New York City,[24] less than a month before Franklin was inaugurated as president.

[25] The bulk of her estate was divided among her three surviving children with smaller bequests made to grandchildren, nephews, friends and institutions.

The household furniture, residue of the property, including $30,000 left to her by another uncle, James King Gracie (1840–1903),[26] was to be shared equally among her children.

[32] After the expiration of the Braus lease, the new lessees planned to construct a nine-story store and loft building with foundations for twelve to fifteen stories.