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Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French. Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry, Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy - and celibate - marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris, Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès. Reflecting a decade of research in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F. Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular writer and critically acclaimed poet.

This paper reflects on what it means to write decadent poetry with a Latin complexion. It begins by revisiting some of the debates surrounding the return of Latin to fin-de-siècle writing to highlight that writers like Alice Meynell and A. Mary F. Robinson (women of style-as opposed to Walter Pater's man of style) were part of these debates. It then moves onto consider the possibility of another fin-de-siècle poetic paradigm resulting from this return to Latin. It examines the idea of composition as a form of composure, and examines in this context the decadent poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson. It offers a reading of the philological poetics of her 1893 volume of poems, Retrospect, as a reflection of a poet in exile concerned with the question of how language composes feeling.