Mary Robinson, a well-known actress and poetess of the Romantic period, has drawn new attention from the cultural studies on the Romantic women poets. The keen concerns she received from the Romantic scholars are due to her intrinsic sense of female authorship as self-dramatization, as it were, the development of multiple masks or voices throughout her works as she once performed them successfully on the stage. As a `female` spectacle on the stage, Robinson played best the role of Perdita, a star-crossed lover of Florizel in The Winter`s Tale, which ironically did not spare her from being politically appropriated by the contemporary spectators in accordance to their diverse stances. The four generally accepted portraits of her, "an actress as whore, an unprotected wife, a star-crossed lover and a female artist as an `English Sappho`, had been advertised by the commercial journalism that wished to read only her body. This paper attempts to read `Robinson`, literally embodied as an `English Sappho`, in two ways: one is to map her role as `the Beautiful` spectacle on the literary stage of the masculine Romanticism, and the other is to trace another voice which falls intermittently through her sonnet elegy of `Sappho and Phaon`. Quite contrary to the journalism`s portrayal of her as a mournful poetess of an `English Sappho`, Robinson betrays her ambitious authorship that aims to `legitimate` her public sphere as solidly as the most sublime poet, Milton, had done in the sonnet tradition. It is not only in the `Preface`, `To the Reader` and `Account of Sappho` that her manifesto is expressed. It is also expressed throughout her sonnet `Sappho and Phaon` by means of a subversive gender role, such as, Sappho as a spectator this time and Phaon as a spectacle of her dear gaze. In this autobiographic elegy read by Sappho in the first person and reread by Robinson through her manifesto, we can understand Robinson`s portrayal of Sappho not as a mythically romanticized beauty but as a female poet who creates her own poetic sphere amongst the other romantic eminences.