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She was the younger sister of the paediatrician Louis Robinson. Maude Robinson described her stories as "simple narratives founded on fact.. sketches from real life of men and women who lived and laboured for the spreading of the Truth as it had been revealed to them, and for the help and healing of their fellowmen."
In Wedded in Prison she draws on first-hand written accounts of Quaker experiences, records and traditions of her own ancestors, and oral history. Contemporary reviewers commented on the wholesomeness, homely fragrance and charm of her stories. reprinted as The Quiet Valley: Memories of a South Down Farm in the 1860s (London: Turnastone, 1994, ).
