by Mary Robinson · Hodder & Stoughton Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781444723311
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«Everybody Matters: A Memoir» is Mary Robinson's memoir, published by Hodder & Stoughton in hardback (343 pages, in English).
Mary Robinson reflects on her career: childhood in a deeply Catholic Ireland, her work as an activist lawyer, her years in the Senate, and her election as Ireland's first female president in 1990. She also covers her time as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and her current commitment to climate justice.
The book was published on 13 September 2012 and includes bibliographic references, an index, and a plate section.
Aimed at readers interested in Irish history, politics, feminism, and the defence of human rights.
Mary Robinson was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as an actress, from the age of 14. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita in 1779, and was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson is the author of the Gothic novels Vancenza; or, the Dangers of Credulity (1792) and Hubert de Sevrac (1796).
