Maria Elizabeth Robinson

Maria Elizabeth Robinson (18 October 1774 – 4 January 1818) was an English novelist.

Robinson's parents had an eventful marriage, and as an infant, she spent some months in debtor's prison when her mother accompanied her father there.

Subsequently, Robinson's mother embarked on a successful literary career, left her husband, and became socially prominent.

Mary Robinson died in 1800 at the age of 44 after a prolonged period of ill-health and chronic debt, and requested that Maria Robinson edit and arrange for the publication of her unpublished works and her memoirs.

[2] Ten years later she published a poetry anthology, The Wild Wreath, dedicated to the Duchess of York, which included her own work as well as unpublished pieces by her mother and poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, M. G. Lewis, Robert Merry, Anna Seward, Robert Southey, and Thomas Twisleton.