Mary Shelley

by Miranda Seymour

  MS dines with, 1;

  put in charge of PBS’S finances during absence in Italy, 1;

  writes to PBS in Italy, 1;

  PBS writes to from Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  on river trip with PBS, 1;

  MS requests combs from, 1;

  as executor of PBS’S will, 1;

  sends MS’S desk and papers to Italy, 1;

  sends relics to MS, 1;

  relations with MS in London, 1;

  on MS’S authorship of The Last Man, 1;

  recommends school for Percy, 1;

  writes to young Percy’s tailor on MS’S behalf, 1;

  MS asks to find work for Hogg, 1;

  criticizes MS’S edition of PBS’S works, 1;

  bequest from PBS, 1;

  rebukes MS for buying letters from Major Byron, 1;

  on Hogg’s biography of PBS, 1;

  criticizes Shelley Memorials, 1;

  death, 1, 2;

  believed by young Percy to be lover of Harriet Shelley, 1;

  Headlong Hall, 1;

  Melincourt, 1, 2;

  The Misfortunes of Elphin, 1;

  Nightmare Abbey, 1;

  ‘Rhododaphne’, 1

  Peake, Richard Brinsley: Presumption; or, The Bride of the Isles (adaptation of Frankenstein ), 1, 2n, 3

  Pearson, Henry Hugo, 1

  Peel, Sir Robert, 1

  Penny Cyclopaedia, 1n

  Peterloo massacre (Manchester 1819), 1

  Petrarch, 1, 2

  Pettman (Petman), Miss (Margate schoolmistress), 1, 2, 3n

  phrenology, 1 & n

  Pickersgill, Henry William, 1

  Pictet, M. (of Switzerland), 1

  Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Pius VII, Pope, 1

  Place, Francis, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Plantis, Louise du, 1

  Plantis, Mme Merveilleux du, 1

  Plato: Symposium, 1, 2, 3

  Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, The, 1

  Poignand, Dr, 1

  Polidori, John: suicide, 1, 2; diary of travels with Byron, 1, 2;

  hears Lawrence’s lectures, 1;

  and writing of ghost stories in Switzerland, 1;

  in Montenvers with Byron, 1;

  on abandoned children in Italy, 1;

  believes Sgricci a charlatan, 1;

  in Geneva with MS, 1;

  The Vampyre, 1;

  dramatized, 1;

  Ximenes (play), 1

  Polygon, the, Somers Town (London), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pope, Alexander: grotto, 1

  Portman Square, London, 1

  Poschi, Villa, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Poussin, Nicolas: Winter (painting), 1

  Priestley, Joseph, 1, 2

  Primrose Street, London, 1

  Procter, Adeline (née Skepper), 1

  Procter, Bryan Waller (‘Barry Cornwall’), 1

  Procter, Nicholas, 1

  Pugnano, 1

  Punch, 1

  Putney, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Quarterly Review 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Racine, Jean, 1

  Ramsgate, 1, 2n

  Ratcliffe, Jeremiah, 1

  Ravenna, 1, 2

  Read (Godwin’s Skinner Street landlord), 1n

  Récamier, Juliette Bernard, 1, 2

  Redding, Cyrus, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Reform Bill (1832), 1& n, 2, 3

  Reni, Guido, 1

  Rennie, Eliza, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rennie, John, 1

  Reveley, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Reveley, Maria see Gisborne, Maria

  revolutions of 1848, 1

  Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, 1, 2, 3

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1

  Rhine, river, 1

  Richmond: MS in, 1

  Rio, Alexis, 1

  Ritchie, Anne, Lady (née Thackeray), 1

  Roberts, Daniel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6

  Robinson family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Robinson, Charles, 1

  Robinson, Henry Crabb: visits Godwin, 1; on Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;

  on Byron’s attendance at Coleridge lectures, 1n;

  on PBS’S denying paternity of Harriet’s child, 1;

  seeks help for Godwin, 1;

  on MS’S appearance and manner, 1;

  praises Procter, 1;

  MS writes to for Godwin correspondence, 1;

  criticizes young Percy, 1

  Robinson, Isabel see Douglas, Isabel

  Robinson, Joshua, 1, 2, 3

  Robinson, Julia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Robinson, Julian, 1, 2, 3

  Robinson, Mary (‘Perdita’), 1

  Robinson, Rosetta (‘Rosa’) see Beauclerk, Rosetta

  Rochefoucauld, François de la see La Rochefoucauld, François de

  Rodney (Dundee ship), 1

  Rogers, Samuel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Rogers, Thomas, 1

  Roland, Marie-Jeanne (‘Manon’), 1, 2

  Romano, Carlo, 1

  Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rosa, Salvator, 1, 2

  Roscoe, C. (publisher), 1

  Roscoe, William, 1, 2

  Rose, Polly, 1

  Ross, Sir James Clark, 1

  Rossetti, Gabriele, 1, 2

  Rossetti, Lucy Madox, 1

  Rossetti, William Michael, 1, 2, 3

  Rossini, Gioachino Antonio: The Barber of Seville, 1

  Rothwell, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1; Confessions, 1;

  Emile, 1, 2;

  La Nouvelle Héloïse, 1, 2

  Royal Literary Fund, 1, 2

  Ruffini family, 1

  Ruskin, John: Modern Painters, 1

  St Aubyn, Sir John, 1, 2n, 3

  St Croix, Marianne de, 1

  St John, Charles (Jane Shelley’s ward; ‘Carlo’), 1, 2

  St John, Charles Robert St John, 1, 2

  St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, 1 & n, 2

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 1

  Salt Hill, Buckinghamshire, 1

  Sand, George, 1

  Sandeman, Robert (and Sandemanians), 1

  Sandgate, Kent, 1

  Sassoon, Siegfried, 1

  science: advances in, 1

  Scotland, 1, 2

  Scott, Sir Walter, 1, 2; The Antiquary, 1;

  Ivanhoe, 1;

  Rob Roy, 1, 2

  Severn, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1

  Sgricci, Tommaso, 1, 2

  Shacklewell Green, east London, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Shakespeare, William: Coleridge lectures on, 1, 2; King Lear, 1;

  Othello, 1;

  The Tempest, 1, 2;

  The Winter’s Tale, 1, 2n, 3

  Shaw, George Bernard, 1

  Shelley House, London, 1

  Shelley, Bessy Florence (Sir Percy’s adopted daughter), 1

  Shelley, Sir Bysshe, 1n, 2; death and will, 1, 2n, 3

  Shelley, Charles Bysshe (Harriet & PBS’S son): birth, 1; and mother’s death, 1;

  PBS seeks custody of, 1, 2;

  guardianship settled, 1n, 2, 3;

  treated as Shelley heir, 1n;

  death, 1

  Shelley, Clara Everina (MS & PBS’S daughter): birth, 1; baptized, 1 & n;

  illness and death in Italy, 1, 2, 3;

  MS seeks grave, 1

  Shelley, Elena Adelaide (PBS’S ‘Naples charge’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Shelley, Elizabeth, Lady (née Pilfold; PBS’S mother), 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  death, 1

  Shelley, Elizabeth (PBS’S sister), 1

  Shelley, Frances, 1

  Shelley, Harriet (née Westbrook; PBS’S first wife): praises Mary Jane Godwin, 1; elopes with PBS, 1 & n, 2, 3;

  in Lynmouth, 1;

  praises Godwin, 1;

  qualities and character, 1;

  visits Godwin, 1;

  birth of daughter Ianthe, 1;

  marriage relations, 1, 2;

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bsp; second marriage to PBS, 1;

  and PBS’S interest in MS, 1, 2;

  blames MS for seducing PBS, 1;

  PBS tells of love for ms, 1;

  resists PBS’S involvement with MS, 1;

  Godwin praises in letter to PBS, 1;

  letter to MS pleading for return of PBS, 1;

  accuses Godwin of selling children to PBS, 1;

  and PBS’S flight with MS, 1, 2;

  PBS invites to Switzerland, 1, 2;

  pregnancy and birth of son Charles, 1, 2;

  PBS borrows from, 1;

  and PBS’S return from France, 1;

  Hogg makes advances to, 1, 2;

  receives allowance, 1;

  supposedly spreads scandal about MS, 1;

  suicide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Godwin spreads posthumous scandal about, 1;

  MS dreams of after drowning, 1;

  in MS’S revised account of marriage, 1;

  PBS’S dedicatory verses to in Queen Mab, 1;

  Godwin reports infidelity to PBS, 1;

  denigrated by Hogg in biography of PBS, 1;

  accused of drink problem, 1;

  in posthumous accounts of PBS and family, 1, 2;

  young Percy’s view of, 1

  Shelley, Hellen (PBS’S sister), 1, 2, 3

  Shelley, Ianthe (PBS and Harriet’s daughter) see Esdaile, Ianthe

  Shelley, Jane, Lady (earlier St John; née Gibson; MS’S daughter-in-law): on Newton family, 1n; on PBS’S love-making with MS, 1;

  believes Godwin’s letter slandering Harriet Shelley, 1;

  marriage to Percy, 1, 2;

  relations with MS, 1, 2, 3;

  background, 1;

  ill health, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  character, 1;

  childlessness, 1, 2;

  dislikes Claire, 1;

  Claire accuses, 1;

  romantic view of PBS and marriage with MS, 1, 2;

  travels 1;

  abroad, 1;

  at MS’S death, 1;

  moves to Boscombe, 1;

  eulogizes MS, 1, 2;

  exhumes and reburies MS’S parents, 1;

  posthumous tributes to MS, 1;

  theatricals, 1, 2;

  proposes Hogg write biography of PBS, 1;

  guides biographical accounts of PBS and MS, 1, 2, 3;

  pilgrimages to Italy, 1;

  letter from Stevenson, 1;

  wishes to banish Trekwny’s portrait, 1;

  manipulation of letters, 1;

  death, 1;

  Shelley and Mary (ed.), 1;

  The Shelley Memorials (with Richard Garnett), 1

  Shelley, John (of Michelgrove; d.1526), 1

  Shelley, Sir John (Sir Bysshe’s brother), 1n, 2

  Shelley, Mary (née Godwin): and galvanism, 1, 2; birth, 1;

  babyhood, 1;

  and mother’s death, 1, 2, 3;

  father’s love for, 1;

  relations with father, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  childhood and upbringing, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  education and reading, 1, 2, 3;

  temper, 1n, 2;

  three-year absence and silence, 1;

  drawing, 1, 2, 3;

  resents stepmother (Mary Jane), 1, 2, 3;

  juvenile writing, 1, 2;

  supposed authorship of Juvenile Library publications, 1;

  moves from Somers Town to Skinner Street, 1, 2, 3;

  hears Coleridge read ‘The Ancient Mariner’, 1, 2;

  Aaron Burr on, 1;

  eczema, 1;

  poor health as adolescent, 1, 2& n, 3, 4, 5;

  sent to Ramsgate, 1;

  social life and amusements in London, 1;

  unhappiness at home, 1;

  and PBS’S letters to Godwin, 1;

  stays with Baxters in Scotland, 1, 2, 3;

  temporary return home from Dundee, 1;

  on role of women, 1;

  Booth’s supposed matrimonial interest in, 1;

  appearance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  leaves Scotland for London (1814), 1, 2;

  first recorded meeting with PBS, 1;

  PBS’S interest in, 1;

  as PBS’S lover, 1, 2;

  flees to France with PBS, 1;

  pregnancy, 1;

  in France, 1;

  loses box of manuscripts and letters in Paris, 1;

  in Switzerland, 1;

  on Rhine, 1;

  returns to England, 1;

  declares love for PBS, 1;

  excluded by Godwins on return from Continent, 1, 2, 3;

  pregnancy, birth and death of daughter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  ostracized on return from elopement, 1, 2;

  relations with Jane Clairmont, 1;

  letters to PBS in hiding from creditors, 1;

  irritability, 1;

  attitude to Hogg, 1, 2, 3;

  in PBS’S proposed alternative commune, 1;

  keeps journal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;

  second pregnancy, 1, 2;

  increasing hostility to Claire Clairmont, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  requests PBS’S return, 1;

  visits Torquay with PBS, 1;

  fears abandonment by PBS, 1;

  at Windsor (Bishopsgate) with PBS, 1, 2;

  attitude to slavery and Africans, 1, 2;

  learns Latin, 1, 2;

  on PBS’S Alastor, 1;

  and birth of son William, 1, 2n;

  leaves for Geneva with PBS, 1, 2;

  meets Byron in London, 1;

  gives recollections for Moore’s Life of Lord Byron, 1;

  life in Switzerland with PBS and Byron, 1;

  Polidori falls for, 1;

  travels in Alps, 1;

  interest in spontaneous generation, 1;

  attitude to Claire Clairmont’s child by Byron, 1, 2;

  devotion to Byron, 1;

  letter to PBS requesting garden and Claire’s absence, 1;

  stays in Bath with Claire on return from Switzerland, 1;

  drawing lessons, 1, 2;

  and Fanny Imlay’s death, 1;

  and writing of Frankenstein, 1;

  and PBS’S financial aid for Leigh Hunt, 1;

  marriage to PBS, 1;

  reaction to Harriet Shelley’s death, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  stays with Leigh Hunts, 1, 2;

  third pregnancy, 1, 2, 3;

  letter to Hunts on friendship, 1;

  and son William’s upbringing, 1, 2;

  passion for Mozart, 1;

  lives in Albion House, Marlow, 1, 2, 3;

  earnestness, 1;

  PBS dedicates ‘Laon and Cythna’ to, 1;

  exhaustion and depression after Clara’s birth, 1;

  unhappiness at PBS’S absence, 1;

  financial difficulties, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  letters lost, 1n;

  leaves England for Italy (1818), 1;

  early impressions of Italy, 1, 2;

  concern for care of Allegra Byron in Italy, 1;

  in Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  in Bagni di Lucca, 1;

  horse-riding, 1;

  copies out PBS’S writings, 1;

  PBS’S love for, 1;

  PBS summons to Venice, 1, 2;

  attachment to father, 1;

  translates Alfieri’s Mirra, 1;

  travels in Italy, 1;

  and Elena Adelaide Shelley in Naples, 1, 2, 3;

  writes to Byron vindicating Claire Clairmont, 1;

  lodges in Rome, 1;

  pregnancy and birth of fourth child (Percy Florence), 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Amelia Curran portrait of, 1, 2;

  despair following death of son William, 1, 2;

  idea of retribution for Harriet Shelley’s death, 1;

  translates Dante with PBS, 1;

  claims PBS’S revolutionary feelings faded, 1;

  moves to Florence, 1;

  studies Greek, 1, 2;

  and father’s financial difficulties, 1, 2, 3;
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  political convictions, 1, 2, 3;

  sexual withdrawal, 1;

  stays in Pisa, 1;

  PBS intercepts letters from Godwin, 1, 2, 3;

  and Claire’s move to Florence, 1;

  moves to San Giuliano, 1;

  relief at Claire’s absence in Florence, 1, 2;

  hurt by PBS’S The Witch of Atlas, 1, 2;

  wishes popular success for PBS, 1;

  deteriorating marriage relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  rift with Gisbornes, 1;

  depicts Italian landscape in fiction, 1;

  devotion to son Percy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  dislikes Medwin, 1;

  practises hypnotism, 1;

  on San Giuliano flood, 1;

  writes to Mrs Hoppner refuting tales of Naples baby, 1, 2, 3;

  intellectual interests, 1;

  friendship with Mavrocordato, 1;

  supports Greek cause, 1;

  depicts Emilia Viviani, 1;

  depicted in PBS’S Epipsychidion, 1, 2;

  Edward Williams portrait of, 1;

  looks forward to Hunts’ visit to Italy, 1;

  improved relations with Claire, 1;

  meets Teresa Guiccioli in Pisa, 1;

  poor health, 1;

  impressed by Trelawny, 1, 2, 3;

  Trelawny’s view of, 1;

  plans to play Desdemona in Othello, 1;

  defends PBS to Dr Nott, 1;

  dances with Trelawny at Mrs Beauclerk’s ball, 1;

  and Claire’s threatened departure from Italy, 1;

  and Claire’s proposals to abduct Allegra from convent, 1;

  and PBS’S attentions to Jane Williams, 1;

  Williamses’ view of coolness towards PBS, 1;

  present at fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;

  and Claire’s welfare after death of Allegra, 1;

  life at Lerici, 1;

  miscarriage and illness, 1;

  and PBS’S nightmares, 1;

  possible self-portrait, 1;

  warns Hunt against visiting Villa Magni, 1;

  and PBS’S drowning at sea and cremation, 1;

  and Trelawny’s proprietorial adoption of PBS after death, 1;

  preserves PBS’S heart as relic, 1, 2;

  safeguards PBS’S reputation, 1;

  grief after PBS’S death, 1, 2;

  believed unfeeling after PBS’S death, 1;

  proposed life of PBS, 1, 2n, 3;

  financial situation in widowhood, 1;

  as Byron’s fair copyist, 1, 2;

  Byron’s effect on, 1;

  shares house with Hunts in Genoa, 1;