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  writing-desk and contents delivered to, 1;

  unworldliness, 1, 2, 3;

  resumes writing, 1;

  teaches son Percy to read and speak English, 1;

  plans to return to England, 1;

  and Sir Timothy’s offer of help for son Percy, 1;

  believes Byron hostile and ungenerous, 1;

  travels back to England as widow, 1;

  return to London (1823), 1;

  scandalous reputation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Sir Timothy makes repayable allowance to, 1;

  abandons writing drama, 1;

  journalistic and short story writing, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  high spirits, 1;

  and Procter’s proposal to publish PBS’S poetry, 1;

  and PBS’S involvement with Emilia Viviani, 1;

  writes preface to PBS’S Posthumous Poems, 1;

  life as widow in London, 1;

  at Novellos’ home, 1;

  lodges in Kentish Town, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  relations with Jane Williams in London, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  walking, 1;

  approached for help by Byron’s biographers, 1;

  deters suitors, 1, 2, 3;

  helps Moore with life of Byron, 1;

  receives payment from John Murray, 1;

  in lives of PBS, 1;

  prefers and adopts identity as woman, 1;

  friendship with Mary Diana Dods, 1, 2;

  borrowings, 1, 2;

  Jane Williams abandons for Hogg, 1, 2;

  in Sompting, Sussex, 1, 2;

  friendship with Isabel Douglas (Robinson), 1, 2, 3;

  learns of Jane Williams’s treachery, 1, 2;

  moves to Arundel, 1;

  connives at Douglas deception, 1;

  moves to Portman Square, 1;

  admits knowledge of treachery to Jane Williams, 1;

  resumes and maintains friendship with Jane Williams, 1;

  visits Paris with Julia Robinson (1828), 1;

  illness in Paris, 389; in Paris with Douglases, 1;

  smallpox and disfigurement, 1, 2;

  relations with Mérimée, 1;

  flirtatious manner, 1;

  stays in Hastings, 1, 2;

  reviews father’s Cloudesley, 1, 2;

  Claire Clairmont turns on, 1;

  pays Charles Clairmont’s travel expenses, 1;

  allowance from Sir Timothy, 1, 2;

  literary earnings, 1, 2, 3;

  literary proposals to John Murray, 1;

  writes Lives of eminent foreigners for Lardner, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  rewrites history of marriage to PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  moderates political views, 1;

  social life and circle in Somerset Street, 1;

  portraits by Rothwell, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  melancholy and depressions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  apparent marriage suggestion to Trelawny, 1;

  enrols son Percy at Harrow school, 1;

  lives in Harrow, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  hopes of marriage to Aubrey Beauclerk, 1, 2, 3;

  influenza, 1;

  looks after aunt Everina Wollstonecraft, 1, 2;

  depicts self in novels, 1;

  and father’s death and burial, 1, 2;

  moves to Regent’s Park, 1, 2;

  cares for stepmother in widowhood, 1, 2, 3;

  friendship with Caroline Norton, 1;

  prepares to edit father’s letters and write memoir, 1, 2;

  takes health break in Brighton (1836), 1;

  religious views, 1, 2;

  and PBS’S reputation, 1, 2;

  overwork and exhaustion, 1;

  acceptance into London social circles, 1, 2;

  breach with Trelawny, 1;

  efuses to become public figure, 1;

  prepares texts and biographical notes for Moxon’s edition of PBS’S works, 1, 2, 3;

  lives in Putney, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  onset of meningioma (brain disease), 1, 2, 3;

  travels with young Percy and friends on Continent, 1;

  betrayed by Julia Robinson, 1;

  second trip to continent with young Percy and Knox (1842), 1;

  visits Claire in Paris, 1, 2;

  adopts Shelley name as author, 1;

  hostility to Austrian subjection of Italy, 1;

  fears suicide impulses, 1;

  overprotective feelings about son Percy, 1, 2;

  inherits Field Place from Sir Timothy, 1, 2;

  and Sir Timothy’s death and will, 1;

  and son Percy’s political ambitions, 1, 2;

  political views, 1;

  invests in railways, 1;

  threatened by Gatteschi, 1;

  buys PBS letters, 1;

  takes waters at Baden-Baden, 1, 2;

  moves to Chester Square house, 1;

  ill health (‘neuralgia of the heart’), 1, 2, 3, 4;

  on Claire’s relations with Coulson, 1;

  biography by Florence Marshall, 1, 2, 3;

  buys Lady Shelley’s carriage, 1;

  in Medwin’s biography of PBS, 1;

  sense of social exclusion, 1;

  growing political conservatism, 1, 2;

  friendly relations with daughter-in-law Jane, 1, 2, 3;

  moves into Field Place, 1;

  offers to translate Laura Galloni, 1 & n;

  Claire’s final estrangement from, 1;

  travels to south of France, 1;

  paralysis and death, 1;

  obituary, 1;

  Jane organizes tributes and relics, 1;

  memorial monument, 1;

  Easton miniature of, 1n;

  accused of coldness, 1;

  posthumous reputation and representation, 1, 2;

  denigrated by Trelawny in Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 1;

  portrait by ‘Cleobulina’ Fielding, 1;

  later biographies and assessments of, 1;

  ‘The Bride of Modern Italy’, 1, 2;

  ‘The Choice’, 1, 2;

  ‘The Dirge’, 1;

  ‘The Elder Son’, 1;

  Falkner, 1, 2;

  ‘The False Rhyme’, 1;

  ‘Ferdinando Eboli’, 1;

  ‘Hate’ (lost story), 1;

  History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1, 2;

  ‘The Invisible Girl’, 1;

  Journals (ed. Feldman and Scott-Kilvert), 1;

  The Last Man, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5 & n, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;

  Lodore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8;

  Matilda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Midas, 1;

  ‘A Monody on the death of William Godwin’, 1;

  ‘The Mourner’, 1;

  ‘O listen while I sing to thee’, 1;

  Perkin Warbeck, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Proserpine, 1, 2;

  Rambles in Germany and Italy, 1, 2;

  ‘A Tale of the Passions’, 1;

  ‘Transformation’, 1;

  ‘Valerius, the Reanimated Roman’, 1;

  Valperga, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7n, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;

  ‘A Visit to Brighton’, 1;

  see also Frankenstein as a separate heading

  Shelley, Mary (Sir Timothy’s daughter), 1

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe: on Skinner Street, 1; correspondence with Godwin, 1, 2;

  elopes with Harriet and breaks with family, 1, 2, 3;

  expelled from Oxford, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5;

  Godwin’s expectations of financial support from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;

  irresponsibility, 1;

  Isabella Baxter’s likeness to, 1;

  in Devon and North Wales with wife and Elizabeth Hitchener, 1;

  interest in funding Tremadoc, 1, 2, 3;

  visits Godwin, 1;

  appearance and manner, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  birth of daughter Ianthe, 1;

  leaves Godwins, 1;

  temperament and character, 1;

  borrow
ings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  marriage relations with Harriet, 1, 2;

  obtains marriage licence for Harriet, 1;

  first recorded meeting with MS, 1;

  interest in ms, 1;

  paranoia, 1;

  as MS’S lover, 1;

  proposes abolition of marriage, 1;

  threatens and attempts suicide, 1;

  flees to France with MS, 1;

  in France and Switzerland with MS, 1;

  invites Harriet to Switzerland, 1;

  wishes to adopt young girls, 1;

  criticizes Jane Clairmont, 1;

  in Switzerland, 1;

  financial worries, 1, 2;

  plans novel in Switzerland (‘The Assassin’), 1;

  returns to England, 1;

  and birth of son Charles, 1;

  hides from creditors, 1, 2;

  vegetarianism, 1, 2, 3;

  depicted in MS’S Lodore, 1;

  treatment of Jane Clairmont, 1, 2;

  ancestry, 1, 2;

  plans alternative commune, 1;

  relations with Hogg, 1;

  keeps journal with MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  inheritance expectations, 1;

  poor health, 1, 2;

  wins settlement in Chancery suit, 1n, 2;

  takes MS to Salt Hill, 1;

  supposed sexual relations with MS, 1;

  receives allowance from father, 1, 2 & n, 3;

  with MS in Torquay, 1;

  Lawrence reassures over health, 1;

  takes house at Bishopsgate, Windsor, 1, 2;

  anti-slavery principles, 1;

  proposes waterway tour of Britain, 1;

  praises MS’S learning Latin, 1;

  on birth of son William, 1;

  leaves for Geneva, 1, 2, 3;

  lacks public recognition as poet, 1, 2, 3;

  life in Switzerland with MS and Byron, 1, 2, 3;

  writes Preface to 1818 edition of Frankenstein, 1, 2;

  frightened by Byron’s ghost story, 1;

  and genesis of MS’S Frankenstein, 1, 2;

  travels in Alps, 1, 2;

  bequests to Claire and friends, 1, 2, 3;

  and Claire Clairmont’s child, 1;

  maintains responsibility for Claire, 1;

  demands radical reform, 1;

  in Bath with MS and Claire, 1, 2;

  and Fanny Imlay’s suicide, 1;

  financial aid for Leigh Hunt, 1;

  Leigh Hunt praises poetry of, 1;

  praises MS’S writing talent, 1;

  learns of Harriets suicide, 1;

  marriage to MS, 1;

  seeks custody of elder children, 1, 2;

  and Godwin’s posthumous slander of Harriet, 1n;

  Thornton Hunt’s affection for, 1;

  in Albion House, Marlow, 1, 2;

  not awarded custody of elder children, 1n, 2 & n, 3;

  philanthropy, 1;

  on poet as unlegislated champion of justice, 1;

  writes words for songs for Claire Clairmont, 1;

  arranges publication of Frankenstein, 1;

  and paternity of Allegra Byron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  writes to Byron on care of Allegra, 1, 2;

  exhaustion, 1;

  fears for custody of younger children, 1;

  protests at political suppression, 1, 2;

  suspected of authorship of Frankenstein, 1;

  eye infection, 1;

  leaves England for Italy (1818), 1, 2, 3;

  concern at Byron’s claims on Allegra’s upbringing, 1;

  health in Italy, 1;

  in Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  home in Casa Bertini, Bagni di Lucca, 1;

  horse-riding, 1;

  investment in Reveley’s steamboat venture, 1, 2;

  suggests MS write tragic drama, 1;

  love for MS, 1;

  translation of Plato’s Symposium, 1, 2, 3;

  accompanies Claire Clairmont to Venice, 1, 2;

  summons MS with sick daughter to Venice, 1, 2, 3;

  ill health in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  and death of Clara, 1, 2;

  supposed sexual infection, 1, 2n, 3;

  travels in Italy, 1;

  and charge (Elena Adelaide) in Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & n, 7, 8;

  and rumours of Claire Clairmont’s Naples pregnancy, 1;

  possible liaison and child with Elise, 1n;

  Medwin writes biography of, 1, 2, 3;

  lodges in Rome, 1;

  and death of son William, 1;

  and MS’S despair after son William’s death, 1, 2, 3;

  reads Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey, 1;

  in Florence, 1;

  portrait by Amelia Curran, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n;

  sensual nature, 1;

  shunned in Italy, 1;

  political sympathies, 1, 2, 3;

  stays in Pisa, 1;

  and Claire’s disturbing effect on MS, 1;

  intercepts Godwin’s letters to MS, 1, 2, 3;

  and Claire’s move to Florence, 1;

  moves to Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;

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

  Godwin disparages to Gisbornes, 1;

  rift with Gisbornes, 1;

  climbing, 1;

  supposedly portrayed in Valperga, 1;

  on MS’S devotion to son Percy, 1;

  invites Claire on Middle East trip with Medwin, 1, 2;

  writes to Claire from San Giuliano, 1;

  visits Byron at Ravenna, 1, 2;

  boils, 1;

  and Greek independence, 1;

  involvement with Emilia Viviani, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  sailing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and Byron’s moving Allegra to convent, 1;

  relations with Claire in San Giuliano, 1;

  shooting, 1, 2;

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

  flirtation with Jane Williams, 1, 2;

  in fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;

  at Lerici, 1;

  requests prussic acid from Trelawny, 1 & n;

  sleepwalking and hallucinations, 1;

  on Claire at death of Allegra, 1;

  and MS’S near-death from miscarriage, 1;

  medical knowledge, 1n;

  dreams and visions, 1;

  drowned at sea, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  cremation and burial, 1;

  heart kept as relic, 1, 2;

  MS’S feelings for after death, 1, 2;

  and Jane Williams, 1, 2;

  singing with Jane, 1;

  translations from Faust, 1, 2;

  posthumous reputation and publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;

  Procter proposes publishing poetry, 1;

  MS proposes selling copyrights of poems, 1;

  portrayed in MS’S fiction, 1, 2;

  Galignam publish poems, 1, 2, 3;

  MS plans life of, 1;

  MS rewrites history of marriage to, 1, 2, 3;

  MS copies letters, 1, 2;

  atheism, 1, 2;

  MS prepares four-volume edition of works, 1, 2, 3;

  pirated editions of works, 1;

  MS’S biographical notes on, 1;

  second (one-volume) edition (1839) of works, 1;

  MS safeguards problem letters, 1;

  MS visits grave, 1;

  family connection with Philip Sidney, 1 & n;

  portrayed by Severn, 1;

  works published in 3–volume edition (1847), 1;

  lives and accounts of, 1;

  grave in Rome, 1;

  ashes of heart buried in St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, 1;

  letters and papers deposited and preserved, 1;

  newly discovered letters, 1;

  MS seeks honour for, 1;

  Adonais, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Alastor, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley (anthology), 1, 2;

  The Cenci, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

 
; A Defence of Poetry, 1, 2n;

  Discourse on the ancient Greeks relative to the subject of love, 1;

  Epipsychidion, 1, 2, 3;

  Essay on the Devil and Devils, 1;

  Essays and Letters (ed. MS), 1;

  Hellas, 1, 2;

  ‘Invocation to Misery’, 1;

  Julian and Maddalo, 1;

  Lines on the Bay of Lerici’, 1;

  ‘Lines on Castlereagh’, 1;

  The Masque of Anarchy, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘Mont Blanc’, 1;

  ‘My thoughts arise and fade in solitude’, 1;

  The Necessity of Atheism, 1, 2;

  ‘Ode to Liberty’, 1;

  Peter Bell the Third, 1;

  Poetical Works, 1, 2;

  Posthumous Poems, 1, 2, 3;

  Prometheus Unbound, 1, 2, 3;

  Queen Mab, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;

  ‘A Refutation of Deism’, 1;

  The Revolt of Islam (earlier ‘Laon and Cythna’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Rosalind and Helen, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples’, 1, 2;

  ‘A Summer Evening Churchyard’, 1;

  ‘To Constantia, Singing’, 1;

  ‘To the Lord Chancellor’, 1, 2;

  ‘To Mary’, 1;

  The Triumph of Life, 1, 2;

  The Witch of Atlas, 1, 2

  Shelley, (Sir) Percy Florence (PBS and MS’S son): birth, 1, 2; MS seeks nurse for, 1;

  ill health, 1;

  childhood in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  MS’S devotion to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  good health, 1, 2;

  MS teaches to read and speak English, 1;

  Sir Timothy Shelley offers to maintain if removed from MS’S care, 1;

  travels back to England with MS, 1, 2;

  Sir Timothy grants repayable allowance to, 1;

  Sir Timothy meets, 1, 2;

  in London, 1, 2;

  schooling, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  measles, 1;

  in Sompting with MS, 1, 2;

  illness at Arundel, 1;

  moves to Portman Square, 1;

  n Hastings with MS, 1, 2;

  Sir Timothy calls on at school, 1;

  character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Claire Clairmont’s attachment to, 1;

  Godwin’s and MS’S agreement on upbringing, 1;

  upbringing, 1, 2;

  MS takes to Sunday services, 1;

  Sir Timothy sends gold sovereign to, 1;

  at Harrow school, 1, 2, 3;

  overweight, 1, 2, 3;

  interests and activities, 1, 2, 3;

  sailing and boating, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  private tutoring in Warwickshire, 1, 2;

  sexual development, 1;

  prospective entry to university, 1;

  visits MS in Brighton, 1;

  at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1, 2;

  correspondence with mother lost, 1;

  MS’S alarm over love-affair, 1;

  youthful romance, 1, 2;

  praises Leigh Hunt’s play A Legend of Florence, 1;

 

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