Literary Chronicle, 660
Literary Gazette, 595, 660, 668
Literary Miscellany, Peacock’s article on decline of poetry in, 641–2; and Shelley’s article in reply (unpublished), 642–6
Literary Panorama, 34 n.
The Literary Pocket-Book, ed. Leigh Hunt, 568
Liverpool, Lord, 9, 97 n., 363, 386, 476, 531, 532, 552; Cato Street Conspiracy and, 579–80
Livorno (Leghorn), 465, 571, 572, 578, 622, 725, 728, 729, 730; Casa Ricci (Gisborne’s house) in, 423; Shelleys’ stay in (1818), 423–6, 429, 444, 446, 493, 513; and at Villa Valsovano, Monte Nero (1819), 518, 519–41 passim, 581; and at Casa Ricci (1820), 596–601 passim; Claire’s vacations in (1820 and 1821), 609, 662, 663, 677–8; Shelley buys sailing boat in, 646–7; Byron moves to, 710, 712, 713
Livy, 463, 487
Llangollen, 161, 163
Locke, John, 48, 54, 71, 76, 298 n., 307, 577
Lockhart, John Gibson, 404–5 & n., 568
Lodore, Mary Shelley, xi, 21–2
London, Shelley’s stay in: at 15 Poland Street (1811), 57–70 passim, 220, 637; 1812: at Lewis’s Hotel, St James’s St, 167–76; 1813: at Cook’s Hotel, Albemarle St, 200–16; and extra lodgings in Half Moon St, 213–16; 1814–15: 250–85: at 56 Margaret St, 250–4; at 5 Church Terrace (Kentish Town), 254–69; at 2 Nelson Square, Blackfriars Rd, 269–76; in Hans Place, 276–80; at 13 Arabella Rd, Pimlico, 280–2; at 26 Marchmont St, Bloomsbury, 282–5; in 1816: in Norfolk St, 314–18; at 26 Marchmont St, 319–20, 346; at Hunts’ house in Vale of Health, 351, 359–63; in 1817: at Hunts’ house in Lisson Grove, 377–80; at 19 Mabledon Place, 383–9; in 1818: at 119 Great Russell St, 407–12
London Chronicle, attack on Shelley in, 342, 404
London Magazine, 275; Mary’s article ‘On Ghosts’ in, 344, 448; review of The Cenci in, 595
London Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review, 595
Longdill, P. W. (Shelley’s solicitor), 321, 343, 346 n., 377, 378, 379, 550, 648, 711; settlement of Shelley estate negotiated by, 281, 282, 283, 313; and Harriet’s suicide, 352, 353
Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, Leigh Hunt, 733
Lovell, Robert, 100
Love’s Coming-of-Age, Edward Carpenter, 633 n.
Lovett, William, 151 & n.
Lucan, 290, 658
Lucca (Tuscany), 429, 430, 443, 444, 602, 604, 651, 670, 687–8
Lucerne, Lake, 236, 237, 241; Shelley’s stay at Brunnen (1814), 242–3
Lucretius, 26, 29, 200, 201, 202, 206, 266 n. 298 n., 311, 403, 434, 485, 494, 522, 598
Luddism, 96, 97 n., 98, 100, 180, 185, 384
Ludlam, Isaac, trial and execution of (1817), 384–6
Lycidas, John Milton, 657
Lynmouth, Shelley’s stay in, 146–62, 197; Claire Clairmont goes to, 282–3, 285
Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth, 8
The Lyrics of Shelley, ed. Judith Chernaik, 371 n.
MacFarlane, Charles, 478–9
McMillan (printer), 389
‘The Mad Mother’, William Wordsworth, 257
Madocks, William Alexander, 164–5, 166, 172, 174 n., 178, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 190, 196, 214
The Magic Plant, Carl Grabo, xii
Magnus, Albertus, 332
Malthus, Thomas, 8
Manchester Observer, 530, 541
Mandeville, William Godwin, 168, 390
Manicheans, 243 n.
Manning, Thomas, 125, 746
Manso, Giovanni, 417
Marcus Aurelius, 488
Marlow, 286, 290, 297, 361, 575; Shelley’s visits to Peacock in, 346, 350, 351, 357–8, 363–6; and Shelley’s home at Albion House (1817), 367–408, 524
Marshall, Mrs Julian, 666 n.
Marx, Karl, 584
Mary, a Fiction, Mary Wollstonecraft, 239
Mary Shelley’s Journal, xii, 737, 754; missing pages (January — May 1815), 276; (December and January 1818), 462–3; (June — August 1819), 518
Masi, Sergeant-Major, violent incident with Byron shooting party, 706–8, 710, 715
Mason, Mrs (Countess Margaret Lady Mountcashell) and family, 572, 629, 659; biographical details, 575–6; and friendship with Shelleys, 541–2, 575, 576–7, 579–80, 600; ‘The Sensitive Plant’ and, 582; Claire’s departure from Shelley household and, 600, 601, 612, 615; and Claire’s stay with, 608, 609, 610, 612, 622
Mason, Laurette, 576
Mason, Nerina, 576
Mathilda, Mary Shelley, 447, 526, 663
Matthews, G. M., 724 n.
Maurois, André, ix, 21 n.
Mavrocordato, Prince Alexander, 624, 630, 641, 646, 650, 651, 652, 681; his departure to join in Greek struggle, 655, 677; Hellas dedicated to, 678
‘Mazeppa’, Byron, 447
Meadows family (in Florence), 571, 573
Medical Extracts, 153
Medici family, 444, 584, 602
The Medusa, Leonardo da Vinci, 479
Medwin, T.C., 4; Shelley seeks financial help from 77, 78, 131, 135, 136, 143
Medwin, Tom, 11 & n., 14, 18, 28, 29, 30, 56, 61, 87–8, 100 n., 196, 215, 420, 474 n, 511, 613, 687; on Shelley’s schooldays at Syon House, 4, 5, 6; and literary collaboration with Shelley, 31; on Shelley’s relationship with father, 35–6; and on expulsion from Oxford, 54, 55; and on Shelley’s dreams, 65–6; and on Shelley’s friendship with Harriet, 66; favours reconciliation between Shelley and father, 211–12; invited to Italy, 572–3, 581, 601; returns to Bagni di Pisa with Shelley, 616; and stays in Pisa, 617; his Sketches in Hindoostan published, 617; on Shelley’s malady, 617–18; and Shelley’s scheme to visit Near East, 619; and Shelley’s translation, 620; and reading of poetry, 621; his impression of Claire, 622; and of Pacchiani, 623; and of Emilia Viviani, 625; his experiments in mesmerism, 626–7, 635; and Williamses’ arrival in Pisa, 640; leaves Pisa, 640; joins Byron’s shooting expeditions, 686, 690; on Shelley’s literary judgement, 689; and on dinner-table conversation, 689
Melincourt, T. L. Peacock, 311
The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, T. J. Hogg, 221, 271–2
Mengaldo, Chevalier, 447–8
Merle, Joseph, 56, 58, 69–70, 111, 175
Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, Mesmerism, 626–7 & n., 635, 701
Mexico, revolution in (1812), 117
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 479
Milan, Shelleys’ stay in (1818), 416–22, 429
Milanie, Mlle (ballerina), 408, 409
Milbanke, Anne Isabella (Lady Byron), 316
Mill, James, 586 n.
Mill, John Stuart, 295 n., 554, 557 n., 586 n., 633 n., 733
Millais, Sir John, 733
Miller’s Hotel, London, meeting between Shelley and father in (1811), 57–8
Milltown, First Earl of, 179 n.
Milly Shields (Shelleys’ servant), 412, 421, 422, 426, 458, 465, 481, 522, 575
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 38
Milton, John, 181, 201, 208, 276, 302, 326, 332, 425, 434, 494, 501 n., 644, 657
Minerva Press, 14, 31, 37
Missolonghi, Byron’s death in, 731
The Monk, M. G. Lewis, 14, 274
Monboddo, Lord, 182, 202
Montagu, Basil, 94 n, 359, 356
Montalègre (Geneva), Shelleys’ stay at Maison Chappuis in (1816), 326, 327–45
Monte Nero (Livorno), Shelleys’ stay in Villa Valsovano in, 518, 519–41, 581
Monte Pisano (Tuscany), 602, 609, 611, 614, 651
Monte San Pelegrino, Shelley’s pilgrimage to, 604
Montgomery, James, 101
Monthly Magazine, 403
Monthly Review, review of Alastor in, 309
Moore, Tom, x, 335, 340, 380, 390, 391, 409, 509, 657, 711; Peter Bell the Third dedicated to, 551
Morgan, Lady, 70
Morelos, José, 117
Morning Chronicle, 51, 389, 661
Morpha Lodge, Tremadoc, 177, 180
Morris, William, 402
Moschus, Shelley’s translations of, 307
, 308 n, 656
Mountcashell family, 124 n.; see also Mason, Mrs
Mount Street Coffee House, London, 66
Moxon (publisher), 210, 431, 732
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 408
Munday’s bookshop, see Slatter and Munday
Murray, John (publisher), 308, 324, 330, 335, 337, 345, 346, 420 n., 666 n., 689; publication of Childe Harold by, 346, 348; and Frankenstein rejected by, 371, 376
The Mutiny Within, James Reiger, 261 n.
Nantgwillt, Radnorshire, 161, 219; Shelley’s stay in (1812), 134–45, 150; and his plans to lease (June 1814), 229–30
Naples, 421, 457, 458, 510, 514, 517, 578, 609; Shelleys’ stay at 250 Riviera di Chiaia in (1818), 461–79, 481, 482–3, 493, 505 n.; and Keats arrival, 614
Napoleon Bonaparte, 290, 448
Napoleonic Wars, 52, 96, 137, 139, 165, 530, 576, 587
Nash, Andrew and George (money-lenders), 226, 229, 232, 236, 238 n., 284–5 n.
Near East, Shelley’s plan to visit, 613, 619
Neufchatel, 237, 240–1, 250
New Harmony egalitarian communities, Indiana, 150 n.
New Monthly Magazine, T. J. Hogg’s ‘Reminiscences of Shelley at Oxford’ in, 41 n., 731; and review of The Cenci, 595
New Testament, 571, 584
Newton, Dr John Frank and Mrs, 174–5, 200, 214, 215, 216–17, 222, 223, 224, 250
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 35
Nightmare Abbey, T. L. Peacock, 374–6, 429, 522, 527
The Niobe statue, 566
Norfolk, Duke of, 10, 43, 89, 97, 123, 124, 165, 184, 216, 415; Shelley visits Greystoke, 95, 109; and negotiates reconciliation between Shelley and father, 212
North Wales Gazette, 165, 166, 187
Nouvelle Héloise, J-J. Rousseau, 334, 336
Novello, Vincent, 369
Nugent, Catherine, 134, 156, 157, 222; Shelley’s friendship with, 128–9, 131–2; and correspondence with Harriet, 129 &n., 133, 147, 148, 176, 183, 184, 200–1, 216, 219, 222, 238, 239, 251, 273–4, 279
Observations on Man, David Hartley, 153, 295 n.
O’Connell, Daniel, 125
O’Connor, Arthur, 123, 124
Odier, Dr and Mme, 328
Odysseus (Greek brigand), 731
Odyssey, Homer, 220
Oedipus, Sophocles, 445
Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, 461
The Old Man of the Mountain, Sales de Lisle, 243 n.
Old St Pancras Churchyard, Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave in, 230, 232 & n.
Oliver affair (government spy), 384 & n., 385 n., 386
Ollier, Charles (publisher), 359, 367, 369, 377, 383, 457, 479, 538, 551, 556, 608, 610, 613, 641, 642–3; Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote . . . published by, 364–5; rejects Frankenstein, 376; publishes On the Death of Princess Charlotte, 385, 386, 388; and The Revolt of Islam, 389, 390–1, 392, 402, 403, 413; and Prometheus Unbound, 509–10 & n., 540, 595; Shelley’s letters from Italy to, 525, 529–30, 545, 551, 568, 569, 580; sends Shelley 1st edition of Rosalind and Helen and Endymion, 529; ‘Ode to Liberty’ sent to, 583; refuses to publish Shelley’s political works, 594; and brings out The Cenci, 595; publishes Medwin’s Sketches in Hindoostan, 617; and Epipsychidion, 634, 639; and ‘A Defense of Poetry’, 646; and Adonais, 655–6; pirate edition of Queen Mab and, 660–1; Shelley’s letter about Valperga to, 675–6; and publication of Hellas, 678, 681, 711; Shelley tries to make break with, 697–8
O’Neil (actress), 513, 525
‘On Ghosts’, Mary Shelley, 344
On National Education, George Ensor, 71–2
On Nervous Diseases, Thomas Trotter, 182, 202
‘On Paradox and Commonplace’, William Hazlitt, 45 n.
On the Nature of Things, Lucretius, 202
Opie, Amelia, 76
Opie, John, 447
Orange, Ursula, 474 n.
Ovid, 184
Owen, Robert, Owenites, 150, 179, 208, 209, 366
Oxford (University College), Shelley at (1810–11), 11, 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 35–56, 98, 99, 104, 225, 403, 514, 543, 637–8, 731; Shelley revisits (1815), 291, 296
Oxford University and City Herald, 51, 52, 54, 371 n.
Pacchiani, Francesco, his friendship with Shelleys, 622–3, 624, 628, 640
Padilla, Count John Taaffe, 624
Padua, 440, 441, 442, 443, 445, 446, 462, 469, 482
Paestum, Etruscan remains at, 278
Paine, Tom, 7, 40, 43, 106, 111, 119, 122, 123, 124, 138, 139, 144, 154, 202, 274, 385, 556, 557, 660
Palatine Hill, Rome, 485, 488
Palazzo Cenci, Rome, 513, 515–16
Palazzo Lanfranchi, see Pisa
Palazzo Mocenigo, see Venice
Palazzo Verospi, see Rome
Pallerini, Maria, 416
Palmyra, T. L. Peacock, 173
Pantisocratic plan (Southey — Coleridge), Paracelsus, 332
Paradise Lost, John Milton, 139, 332, 405, 509
Paradise Regained, John Milton, 425
II Paradiso, Dante, 418
Paris, Shelley’s visits to, 236–7, 250, 322
Parry-Jones, Corbet, 564–5, 568
Pascoud, translation of Political Justice by, 348
Pausanias, 435
Peacock, Thomas Love, x, 14, 20, 25, 54, 65 n., 79, 83, 200, 233, 241, 251, 258, 261, 286, 290, 412, 413, 551, 554, 561, 597, 732; on Harriet, 68; his friendship with Shelley, 173–4, 214, 216, 217–18, 221, 264, 265; crotchet novels of, 174 & n.; his hallucination theory of shooting incident at Tremadoc, 187, 190, 192, 193, 194, 195–6; on Eliza Ianthe, 215–16; his friendship with Harriet, 217, 222, 234, 250; and description of Bracknell people, 217; acts as mediator between Shelley and Harriet, 219; and accompanies Shelleys to Edinburgh, 219–23; returns to Bracknell with Harriet and Eliza, 223; condemns Shelley’s elopement with Mary, 236, 238; Shelley’s financial support for, 238 n.; renews friendship with Shelley, 254–5, 263; Marianne St Croix becomes his mistress, 265; Shelley hides from bailiffs in house of, 265–6; and negotiates loan of money, 266, 269; imprisoned for debts, 277; on Shelley’s plan to enter Church, 287–8; boating expedition organized by, 291–4; and frequent visitor at Bishops-gate, 297; completes Headlong Hall and begins Melincourt, 311; on Shelley’s reasons for leaving England, 321; Shelley’s letter from Switzerland to, 323, 324, 334, 336–7, 337, 338, 339–43; Shelley visits him in Marlow, 346, 350, 351, 357–8, 363–4; and Shelley’s Will, 346 n.; at Albion House, 368, 370, 371, 405; bases Nightmare Abbey on Shelley household, 374–6, 429; his influence on Shelley, 382; Hogg spends Xmas 1817 with, 389; in London with Shelleys, 408, 410; Shelley’s letter from Italy to, 416, 421, 422: from Bagni di Lucca, 427, 428, 429, 431 — from Este, 443–4; from Venice (on Italian women), 448–9; from Ferrara, 458–9; from Naples, 463, 464, 475, 476, 477–8, 479; from Rome, 486–7, 489–90, 510, 518; and from Monte Nero, 519, 522–3, 527, 528, 529, 531, 532, 537; sends Shelley box of books, 522; and Shelley’s appreciation of Nightmare Abbey, 522; obtains good position in India House, 523; MS and Leghorn edition of The Cenci sent to, 525, 528, 539; sends Shelley newspapers about Peterloo, 529; his doubts about The Cenci, 545; and Shelley’s letters from Pisa to, 580, 592, 619, 691; his unexpected marriage, 585–6; his article on decline of English Poetry, 641–2; and Shelley’s reply, 642–6; Shelley’s letter from Ravenna to, 665; and his reaction to Shelley’s Eastern scheme, 683; his later career (after Shelley’s death), 733; and publishes ‘Memoirs’ of Shelley, 733
Peacock, Mrs (mother of Thomas Love), 267
Pelleschi, Gaspero, 565, 571
Pentridge Revolution (1817), 137, 171 n.; trial and execution of leaders of, 384–6, 387
Percival, Spencer, 135, 137; impeachment of, 165
Pereira, Joachim Baptista, 222, 408
Perkins, Erasmus, 210
The Persians, Aeschylus, 677
‘Peter Bell, a Lyrical Ballad’, J. M. Reynolds, 547, 551
‘Peter Bell, a Tale’, William Wordsworth, 547, 551, 621
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sp; Peterloo (1819), 384–5 n., 529–31, 537, 539, 541, 543, 544, 556, 562, 567, 580, 590, 591
Petrarch, 443, 630
Petronius, 274
Phaedo, Plato, Shelley’s translation of, 432
Phaedrus, Plato, 26
Philhellenism, 678
Phillips (Worthing printer), 49, 50
Philoctetes, Sophocles, 424 & n.
Pike (money-lender), 266, 274
Pilfold, Captain, 61, 62, 63, 70, 71, 81, 87, 88, 136, 140, 141, 142–3, 321, 379
Pilfold, Elizabeth see Shelley, Elizabeth (mother)
Pisa, 421, 528, 546, 568, 730; Shelley’s stay at Albergo delle Tre Donzelle (1818), 422 & n.; and overnight stay in 1819, 541–2; and in 1820; at the Tre Donzelle, 373–4; and at the Casa Frassi, 574–96 passim; Masons’ house (Casa Silva) in, 541–2, 574, 576, 577, 579–80, 581, 596, 600, 648, 651; architectural style in, 574; Claire stays with Masons (1820–21), 608, 609, 610, 612, 622, 662, 716; Shelleys’ apartment at the Casa Galetti (1820–1), 617–41 passim; and at Casa Aulla (1821), 641–50 passim; Byron’s move to, 670, 671, 676; and Shelley negotiates lease of Palazzo Lanfranchi, 673; and Byron’s stay in, 682, 685–712 passim; Shelleys’ apartment at Tre Palazzi di Chiesa (1821–22), 681–711 passim; and Shelley’s last visit to, 728–9; see also Bagni di Pisa
‘Pisan Poems’, 620, 628, 683–4, 719
Pitt, William, 9, 52, 123, 154
Pittman, Major, 626
Place, Francis, 87, 226, 349, 363, 366
Plantis, Louisa du, 571
Plantis, Mme Merveilleux du, 537, 538, 542, 565
Plantis, Zoïde du, 537, 542, 571, 573
Plato, 26, 182, 298 n., 305, 360, 426, 429–38, 448, 522, 542, 619, 682, 718
Pliny, 26, 30, 201
Plutarch, 181, 202, 220, 332
Poe, Edgar Allen, 221 n.
Poland Street, see London
Pole, Wellesley, 137
Polidori, Dr William, 319, 334, 344, 345, 448 n.; his notes on stay in Geneva with Byron and Shelley, 324–30
The Political House That Jack Built, William Hone, 539
Political Justice, William Godwin, 26, 98, 103, 104, 105, 106, 122, 152, 168, 255, 348, 389
Political Register, 8, 43, 119, 147, 349, 365, 522, 530 n., 556
Polly Rose (Marlow village girl), 373–4
Pompeii, 463, 470, 477, 479
Pontarlier, 239–40
Pool, Lord and Lady, 11
Pope, Alexander, 552, 554
Pope, Dr, 297
Portovenere, 696, 712, 714, 715
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