Lanzarini, Fabiano, 61
Lanzarini, Luigi, 59–62
laudanum, 108–10, 192
Leigh, Augusta, 156, 158, 169
Leigh, Medora, 156
Leyden jar, 140
life:
control of, 201
elixir of, 95–96
principle of, 174
spark of, 172
Light, Tom, 72
Lind, James, 105–7
Lockhart, John, 210
Loew, Rabbi, 99–100
London:
Fortune of War pub, 74, 75, 234
medical revolution in, 65–66
Newgate Prison, 79–82, 80, 234
Old Bailey courthouse, 32, 74
public hangings in, 31–34, 74, 80, 81, 234
resurrectionist gangs in, 71–72
river Thames in, 23–24, 23
Royal College of Surgeons, 8–9, 83, 85, 86
Spring-Garden Rooms, 151
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Medical College, 74
St. Pancras Cemetery in, 114, 127–28
Temple of Health, 66–67
London Burkers, 233–34, 233
London Corresponding Society, 34
Love, Alexander, 205–6
Lully, Raymond, Experimenta, 137
lunatics, experiments on, 60–62, 86
MacDonald, D. L., Poor Polidori, 186, 187
Mackenzie, Peter, 206, 214, 215–16
Massachusetts, body-snatching legislation in, 276
May, James, 233–34, 233
M’Dougal, Helen, 217, 226, 228, 231–32
Meadowbrook, Lord, 228
Medwin, Thomas, 110, 118, 250, 283
Menninger, Carl, 186
mercury, 98
M’Gregor, John, 210–11
Milbanke, Annabella, 156, 158–59
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, 181
Mondino De’ Luzzi:
and Aldini’s experiments, 59
Anatomia Corposi Humani, 44, 45
dissections performed by, 44–45
Monro, Alexander, 219, 228, 231
Moore, Thomas, 154–55, 157
Morgan Library, New York, 268
mort houses, 208–9
Mount Tambora, volcanic eruption of, 145–48
Mount Vesuvius, 240
Munro, Doctor, 106
Murder Act (1752), 82–83
Murray, John, 163, 177, 187–88, 197
Naples, 246–48
child born in, 240–46
Royal Gardens, 239–40
Naples, Joseph, The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 72
natural philosophers, 54
and alchemy, 93, 97
and anatomists, 44
and electrical/medical experiments, 17, 105, 278
and Frankenstein, 199–200, 201
on reanimating the dead, 9, 172
nature, powers of, 17, 18
Newgate Prison, 80
Dickens’s visit to, 79–82
public hangings at, 80, 81, 234
New York Mortuary Services, 273–76
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Beyond Good and Evil, 203
Night-mare Life-in-Death tales, 16
nitrous oxide (laughing gas), 35–36
O’Brien, Patricia, 274–75
Old Bailey, London, 32, 74
opiates:
Coleridge’s use of, 14
effect on animal electricity, 5
hallucinogenic, 36, 109
laudanum, 108–10, 127
opium poisoning, 109
Papaver somniferum, 109
ox, experiment on, 56–59
Paine, Thomas, The Rights of Man, 21
Pancaldi, Giuliano, 54
Paracelsus, 92–94, 92, 101
and alchemy, 93–94, 95–97, 98, 99, 100, 139
De rerum natura, 96–97
and homunculus, 92, 96, 97
and opium, 109
paralysis, cure sought for, 4, 57
Paris:
Gibbet of Montfaucon, 47
Mary and Percy in, 128
Parisian method, 69
Pass, Mr. (“Beadle”), 84, 86, 88
Passages from Lady Anne Barnard’s Private Family Memoirs, The, 158
Paterson, Mary, 223–24, 227
Patience, Hannah, 77–78
Pattison, Granville Sharp, 213–14
Paul de Philipsthal (Philidor), 151
Peacock, Thomas Love, Memoirs of Percy Shelley, 118, 119
phantasmagoria, 151
Philidor, Paul, 151
Philips, Owen, 147
Phillips, Charles, 31
philosopher’s stone, 137, 138, 140–41
Phlegraean Fields, 240
phrenologists, 231
Pietro (servant), 263–64
Place, Francis, 120
Plath, Sylvia, 133
Pneumatic Institution, Bristol, 35
Poignand, Doctor, 19–20
Polidori, Aloysius, 174
Polidori, Charlotte Lydia, 163–64
Polidori, Gaetano, 162, 185
Polidori, John William, 161–65, 172–77
accident of, 187
biography of, 186
bordello visits of, 163, 169, 187
diary of, 163–64, 172, 179, 183, 186, 190
“Ernestus Berchtold,” 177
and ghost story competition, 163, 176–79
and grave robbing, 173–74
and Mary, 175, 176, 183
medical cases of, 174–75
and mind-body separation, 174
“Oneirodynia,” 174
as outsider, 175–76, 184–87, 190, 252
and somnambulism, 174, 176, 190
suicide of, 189–90, 253, 268
“The Vampyre,” 188–89, 190
writings of, 169, 172, 175, 177, 187, 188–89
Ponce, Charles, 92
Prometheus (myth.), 200
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, 145, 146–47
reanimation, 9, 36, 172–73
and alchemy, 96–97
and galvanism, 37, 177
moral questions about, 93–94
resurrectionists (body snatchers), 69, 70–74, 75, 114, 173, 233, 235–36
resuscitation, 76, 96–97
Rhine River:
Burg Frankenstein on, 134, 135
Lorelei legends of, 132
Mary and Percy’s travels on, 131–35
Richardson, Ruth, 72
Roberts, Capt. Daniel, 252, 259
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 239, 280
Romantic poets, 97
Ross (prisoner), 210, 211–12
Rossetti, Christina, 162
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 162
Rossetti, Gabriele, 162
Rossetti, William Michael, 164
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 23
Royal College of Surgeons, London, 8–9, 83, 85, 86
Royal Humane Society, 75–77
Royal Institution, London, 36
Royal Society, 105
St. John, Jane Gibson, 284
Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, 245
Sant-Orsola hospital, 59–61
séances, 151
Shakespeare, William:
Macbeth, 89
The Tempest, 249–50
sheep, dissection of, 56
Shelley, Charles (son), 195, 283
Shelley, Elena Adelaide (adopted baby), 241–43
Shelley, Harriet Westbrook (first wife), 115–20, 125–26, 149, 194–95
Shelley, Ianthe (daughter), 114, 117, 194–95, 283
Shelley, Mary Godwin:
and baby’s death, 150–51, 152, 153, 241–42, 243, 248, 266, 268, 281
and Byron’s death, 265–66
death of, 284–85
early years of, see Godwin, Mary
and Fanny’s death, 192–94
final years in Italy, 279–84
and financial concerns, 278–79
folktales collected b
y, 130–31, 135–36
Frankenstein by, see Frankenstein
and ghost story competition, 163, 176–80
headaches of, 279, 282–84
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 141–42
and Hogg, 152–53, 261
influences on, 94, 98, 100, 199–201, 278
The Last Man, 267
letters of, 153
and literary interpretation, 10
melancholy of, 167, 193–94, 240, 241, 243, 247–49, 254, 263, 267, 279, 285
in Naples, 239–40, 246–48
and Percy, 28, 100, 110, 112–14, 117, 119, 120–21, 154, 170, 195–96, 247–48, 261
and Percy’s death, 257, 260, 262, 266, 268, 278
and Percy’s memory, 283
and Percy’s writings, 266, 279
and Polidori, 175, 176, 183
Rambles in Germany and Italy, 134
reputation of, 148, 154, 170
and science, 9–10
and son William, 160–61, 248
in Switzerland, 129–30, 167–80
travels with Jane (Claire) and Percy, 121, 125–34, 149–51, 161, 163–64, 165, 167, 191, 239–42
and waking dreams, 174, 267, 269
Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
“Alastor,” 198–99
biographies of, 283
boats of, 248, 249, 250, 252–56, 259–60
Death, 237
death of, 256–60, 261, 262–63, 268
and Dippel, 137–38
and electrical experiments, 9, 10, 103–5, 107–8, 278
Essays and Letters, 279
at Eton, 105
and Fanny’s death, 192–94
fascination with the dead, 108, 173, 198–99, 237, 261
finances of, 128, 183
and Frankenstein, 198–99, 200, 202
funeral pyre of, 257–59
and ghost story competition, 176–79
and Godwin, 101–2, 119–20, 126, 196
and Harriet (first wife), 115–20, 125–26, 149, 194–95
health problems of, 151, 154, 161, 167, 239
and Hogg, 103–5, 107–8, 114–15, 116, 117, 153
and Jane (Claire), 149–51, 153, 154, 183, 242–44, 245
laudanum taken by, 108–10, 127
and Mary, 28, 100, 110, 112–14, 117, 119, 120–21, 154, 170, 195–96, 247–48, 261
medical interests of, 173
at Oxford, 102–3, 107–8, 114–15, 173
and Paracelsus, 92
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 279
Prometheus Unbound, 200
prussic acid sought by, 253–54
reputation of, 148, 170–71, 283
restlessness of, 116–17
and the sea, 248, 250, 252–57
in Switzerland, 168–80
travels with Jane (Claire) and Mary, 121, 125–34, 161, 163–64, 165, 167, 191, 239–42
waking dreams of, 109–10, 174, 249
works revised and published, 266, 279
Shelley, Percy Florence (son), 279–80, 284
Shelley, Sir Timothy, 196
Shelley, William (son of Mary and Percy), 160–61, 248
Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 153, 244–46
Simon Magus, 94, 95, 100
Smith, John, 195
Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, 76
somnambulism, 174, 176, 190
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, 135, 189
sulfuric acid, 147
superstition, 17, 141
Switzerland:
Byron in, 168–80
Jane (Claire) in, 169–70, 172
Mary and Percy in, 129–30, 167–80
suicide at Devil’s Bridge, 91–92
Taylor, John, 126, 127
Taylor, William, 206–7
Temple of Health, London, 66–67
Thames River, 23–24, 23
Tooke, John, 34
torture, 42
Tower of London, 34
transmutation, 137
Trelawny, E. J., 247, 249, 250–60, 264–65
and Percy’s death, 256–60, 263
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author, 283
Twain, Mark, “In Defence of Harriet Shelley,” 117, 119
Universal Studios, 285
University of Bologna, 37, 48
“Alma Mater Studiorum,” 7
dissections in, 44, 45
University of Edinburgh Medical School, 173, 219, 231
University of Leyden, 140
University of Padua, 48
University of Pavia, 51, 54
Ure, Andrew, 212–13, 214–16
Ure, Catherine, 213–14
Veratti, Giuseppe, 4
Vesalius, Andreas, 45–48, 45
and body snatching, 46–47
De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 47–48, 47
dissections by, 45, 47, 48
at University of Padua, 48
vitalism, 9
vital powers, 37
Vlad the Impaler, 135–36
volcanic eruption:
global effects of, 147–48, 171
Tambora, 145–48
Volta, Alessandro, 51–55, 105
Volta, Filippo, 53
Volta, Maddalena, 53
voltaic pile, 52, 56
Wakley, Thomas, 235
Wales, William, 14
Walpole, Horace, 68
Walton, Margaret, 17
Warburton, Henry, 233, 234
Watt, Gregory, 35
Watt, James, 35
Wedgwood, Thomas, 25
Westbrook, Eliza, 116, 117, 194
Westbrook, Harriet, 115–20, 125–26, 149, 194–95
West Port Murders, The (anon.), 217, 231
Whale, James, 285
William, Prince of Orange, 140
Williams, Edward, 247, 249, 251, 254–59
Williams, Jane, 249, 254, 260–61, 284
Williams, Thomas, 233–34, 233, 276
Wilson, James “Daft Jamie,” 224–25, 225
Wittgenstein, Count August von, 141
Wollstonecraft, Everina, 166
Wollstonecraft, Mary:
and baby’s birth, 18–20
death of, 14, 20–21, 26–28
and Fuseli, 22, 27
and Godwin, 21–22, 24–28, 31
gravesite of, 114, 121, 126, 127
and Holcroft, 26
and Imlay, 22–23, 24, 27
influence of, 28, 112, 114, 119, 130, 251, 280
melancholy of, 24, 27, 167
suicide attempted by, 24, 27
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 20, 27, 112
Wordsworth, William, 14
Year Without a Summer, 147
Young, Thomas, 211, 212
Young Frankenstein (film), 287
Zeus (myth.), 200
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The lady and her monsters : a tale of dissections, real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the creation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece / Roseanne Montillo. — 1st ed.
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