A Cultural Tourist in Romantic Germany: Henry Crabb Robinson as Nineteenth-Century Life Writer

Henry Crabb Robinson is mostly remembered for having cultivated the acquaintance of many of the leading writers of his time in Germany and England, and for his value as a source of historical information about his better known peers. This article argues that despite the fact that Robinson never completed his Reminiscences, his letters, diaries, journals, and other writing indicate that he deserves to be considered an important nineteenth-century autobiographer.