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67 “liberty-loving . . .”: Anthony Holden, The Wit in the Dungeon, 104.
67 “Adonis . . .”: “The Prince on St. Patrick’s Day,” 179.
68 “sedate-faced young lady . . .”: Thornton Hunt, ed., The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, vol. 1, 134.
68 “nymph of the sidelong looks”: Ibid., 129.
68 “in the paleness . . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 1, 155.
69 “is very comfortable . . .”: Holmes, Shelley, 368.
69 “the most wonderful work . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, p. 69.
70 “little information, no reflection . . .”: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, July 1818, 412.
74 “Country town friends . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 58.
74 “Le rêve est fini”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 197.
74 “The little Commodore”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 203.
75 “the fruit trees . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 63–64.
76 “My dear Lord Byron . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 206.
76 “requires reassurance . . .”: Holmes, Shelley, 419.
77 “They dress her . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 68.
78 “She is reserved . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 209.
78 “How inexpressibly pleasing . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 216.
79 “I like nothing so much . . .”: The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 5, 364.
79 “I went to the races . . .”: Richard Garnett, ed., Thomas Love Peacock, 75.
79 “originality, excellence of language . . .”: Untitled review of Frankenstein, in La Belle Assemblée, March 1818.
79 “The work impresses us . . .”: “Remarks on Frankenstein” in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, 620.
79 “What a tissue . . .”: Untitled review of Frankenstein, in the Quarterly Review, October 1817–May 1818, 382.
80 “make the flesh creep . . .”: Ibid., 385.
80 “This is, perhaps . . .”: The Hamilton Palace Libraries, 138.
CHAPTER SIX
“The Journal Book of Misfortunes”
81 “The cold stars . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Frankenstein, 95.
81 “His limbs were nearly frozen . . .”: Ibid., 14.
82 “the fine form . . .”: Ibid., 31.
82 “I became myself capable . . .”: Ibid., 47.
82 “demoniacal corpse”: Ibid., 53.
84 “Everywhere I see bliss . . .”: Ibid., 91.
84 “A race of devils . . .”: Ibid., 119.
85 “a source of powerful and profound emotion . . .”: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On ‘Frankenstein’” in Athenaeum, 730.
86 “Pray come instantly . . .”: Holmes, Shelley, 443.
86 “O Mary dear . . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3, 143.
88 “I found Mary . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 231.
89 “This is the Journal book . . .”: Feldman and Scott-Kilvert, eds., The Journals of Mary Shelley, vol. 1, 226.
89 “sink long under a calamity . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 215.
89 “Day and night . . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3, 127.
90 “more beautiful . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 245.
91 “I could lie down . . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3, 152.
92 “It has such an effect . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 89.
92 “Evil thoughts will hang about me . . .”: Ibid., 91.
93 “vast heaps of shattered walls . . .”: Charles E. Robinson, ed., Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories, 340.
93 “such is the immortality . . .”: Ibid., 341.
93 “she has made . . .”: E. J. Trelawny, “Shelley’s Last Days” in Athenaeum, 144.
95 “is so very delicate . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 98.
95 “The misery of these hours . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 267.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sorrow’s Abode
96 “My heart was all thine own . . .”: M. W. Shelley, “The Choice,” in Harry Buxton Forman, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 1, 4.
96 “We have now lived . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 244.
97 “And left me . . .”: P. B. Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3, 231.
97 “It seems to me . . .”: Ingpen, ed., The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 692.
97 “How happy we should all be . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 134.
97 “I consider the day . . .”: Kegan Paul, William Godwin, vol. 2, 270.
98 “guilty love . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Mathilda, 72.
98 “My heart was bleeding . . .”: Ibid., 94.
98 “disgusting & detestable . . .”: Frederick L. Jones, ed., Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams, 45.
98 “The little boy . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 112.
99 “Poor Mary begins . . .”: Ingpen, ed., The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 747.
99 “Wind! Frost! Snow . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 124.
99 “see no company . . .”: Helen Rossetti Angeli, Shelley and His Friends in Italy, 96—97.
99 “a sweetly pretty woman . . .”: Ibid., 98.
100 “We are tired . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 124.
102 “he had first discovered . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot, 115.
103 “Be one reading . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 256.
103 “He is Common Place . . .”: Ibid.
103 “His hair, still profuse . . .”: Thomas Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 2.
103 “partook of his genius . . .”: Thomas Medwin, Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 57.
104 “a fine boy . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 341.
104 “consists in its exquisite vegetation . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Valperga, vol. 1, 44.
106 “scattering the fallen leaves . . .”: Ibid., 45.
106 “the putting of Allegra . . .”: Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys, 59.
106 “You have no other resource . . .”: Ingpen, ed., The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 942.
107 “nice pretty girl . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 317.
107 “Our husbands decide . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 465.
108 “There is an air . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 321.
108 “could not, even to save his life . . .”: Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece, 153.
108 “I am glad . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 322.
108 “witty, social, and animated . . .”: William Michael Rossetti, “Shelley’s Life and Writings” in Dublin University Magazine, 146.
109 “The clearest echoes . . .”: P. B. Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 3, 114.
109 “Had we been wrecked . . .”: Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 498.
111 “I had a stern tranquillity . . .”: Stocking, ed., The Journals of Claire Clairmont, 436–37.
111 “He complained of
being . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 349.
112 “I lay nearly lifeless”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 244.
112 “She is a most beautiful boat . . .”: Ingpen, ed., The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 2, 966.
CHAPTER EIGHT
“And I Live!”
115 “The ungrateful world . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed., Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, iv.
115 “I looked more like a ghost . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 247.
116 “I have some of his friends . . .”: Ibid., vol. 3, 401.
116 “They are now about this . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 20.
118 “For this to make way . . .”: Holden, The Wit in the Dungeon, 166.
118 “Those about me . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 261.
119 “Shelley, the writer . . .”: Holmes, Shelley, 730.
119 “My poor girl . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 9.
120 “I should not live . . .”: Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 15.
120 “My William, Clara, Allegra . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 41.
120 “After loving him . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 316.
120 “the best and least selfish man . . .”: Leslie A. Marchand, ed., Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 1, 11.
121 “I shall live . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 21.
121 “the old gentleman”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 333.
121 “Lo and behold . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 94.
121 “I was much amused . . .”: Ibid., 95
123 “the intimate friend . . .”: Ibid., 66.
123 “Yet, is it true . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Mary Shelley: The Dover Reader, 494.
124 “light footfalls . . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 113.
124 “. . . if a thing divine . . .”: Ibid., 196.
125 “Swift as a spirit . . .”: Ibid., 73.
125 “No man was ever more devoted than he . . .”: Ibid., iv.
125 “to be judged of . . .”: “Shelley’s Posthumous Poems,” 184–85.
126 “too correct in their conduct . . .”: Mrs. Herbert Martin, Memories of Seventy Years, 81.
127 “made welcome Mrs. Shelley . . .”: Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers, 37–38.
128 “Be it ever so humble . . .”: John Howard Payne, “Home, Sweet Home.”
129 “You are perpetually in my presence . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 370.
129 “Your imagination creates the admired . . .”: Ibid.
130 “Be kind to me . . .”: Ibid., 344.
130 “The great affection . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 380.
130 “Ye Gods . . .”: Ibid., 425.
131 “my loved Shelley . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 114.
131 “Why am I doomed . . .”: Blumberg, Byron and the Shelleys, 163.
CHAPTER NINE
Secrets
132 “Permit a heart . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, vol. 3, 354.
132 “Of the crowding visitors . . .”: Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend, 535.
134 “upon the world’s love . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 1, 453.
134 “supremely handsome . . .”: M. W. Shelley, The Last Man, vol. 1, 37.
135 “stony eyes . . .”: Ibid., vol. 2, 20.
135 “He was lifted . . .”: Ibid., 40.
136 “after long endurance . . .”: Ibid., 199.
136 “The whole appears to us . . .”: Untitled review of The Last Man, in the Monthly Review, January–April 1826, 335.
136 “monstrous fable . . .”: Untitled review of The Last Man, in the Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc., February 18, 1826, 102–3.
137 “more queer stingy . . .”: Joan Rees, Shelley’s Jane Williams, 128.
137 “Where I see suffering . . .”: M. W. Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, vol. 3, 352.
138 “The country about here . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 119.
139 “My friend has proved false . . .”: Ibid., 166–67.
140 “You gave ear . . .”: Thomas James Wise.
141 “the most terrible . . .”: Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, vol. 4, 575.
142 “It was rather droll . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 46.
143 “old Aunt”: H. Buxton Forman, ed., Letters of Edward John Trelawny, 116.
144 “a monster to look at . . .”: Gittings and Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys, 129.
144 “I always wished . . .”: H. Buxton Forman, ed., Letters of Edward John Trelawny, 117.
144 “There is nothing . . .”: Marshall, The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 193.
145 “I became aware . . .”: M. W. Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, vol. 1, iii.
146 “I feel my many weaknesses . . .”: Ibid., vol. 3, 352–53.
146 “full of strange incident . . .”: Untitled review of The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, in the London Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc., May 22, 1830, 335.
146 “it may impart useful instruction . . .”: The Crayon Miscellany, unnumbered page.
146 “And now, once again . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Frankenstein, 169.
CHAPTER TEN
Memory
147 “Peace! was I ever at peace . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lodore, vol. 1, 64.
147 “My heart & soul . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 427.
148 “He was a being . . .”: William Godwin, Jr., Transfusion, xviii.
148 “This is a sad blow . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 423.
149 “Lengthening years . . .”: Holden, The Wit in the Dungeon, 242.
149 “with a whole life . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 424.
149 “It would be giving . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and Other Writings, vol. 1, 174.
150 “taught to know herself . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Lodore, vol. 1, 40–41.
150 “a love of truth . . .”: Ibid., vol. 3, 311.
151 “Come—My only Friend . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 248.
151 “one of the most original . . .”: Untitled review of Lodore, in the London Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc., March 28, 1835, 194.
151 “one of the best . . .”: “A Decade of Novels and Nouvellettes” in The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, 104.
152 “Office Keeper . . .”: St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys, 485.
152 “He knew himself . . .”: Feldman and Scott-Kilvert, eds., The Journals of Mary Shelley, vol. 2, 270.
152 “At the depth of twelve feet . . .”: Ibid.
153 “What is there . . .”: William Godwin, Essays, 283.
153 “It has been the main object . . .”: Ibid., v.
154 “a garden rose . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Falkner, 22.
154 “a sort of rapturous, thrilling adoration” and “a half remorse . . .”: Ibid., 46.
154 “torn by throes . . .”: Ibid., 26.
155 “Energy and highly wrought passion . . .”: Untitled review of Falkner, in the Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, February 4, 1837, 66.
157 “most sacred duty
. . .”: M. W. Shelley, ed., The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 1, xvi.
157 “Mountain and lake . . .”: Ibid., 103.
157 “a soul and a voice . . .”: Ibid., vol. 2, 136.
157 “This minute and active sympathy . . .”: Ibid., vol. 1, 377.
157 “His poems may be divided . . .”: Ibid., vol. 1, x.
158 “Does Mrs. Shelley believe . . .”: “Our Library Table,” Athenaeum, April 27, 1839, 313.
158 “a falsification of Shelley’s nature . . .”: Untitled review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the Examiner, February 3, 1839, 70.
159 “How very much he must enjoy . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 2, 310.
159 “I am torn to pieces . . .”: Ibid., 559.
159 “time may flow on . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 471.
159 “the tenets and beliefs . . .”: Stewart M. Hoover and Nadia Kaneva, eds., Fundamentalisms and the Media, 41.
160 “My heart was elevated . . .”: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy, 93.
160 “by myriads of loving spirits . . .”: Ibid., 94.
160 “strange and indescribable emotions . . .”: Ibid., 60–61.
162 “affection and devotion . . .”: Gittings and Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys, 178.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Happiness
163 “The turf will soon be green . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Mathilda, 219–20.
164 “to have wasted . . .”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 507.
166 “always cheerful . . .”: Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, vol. 3, 158.
166 Who are you . . .”: Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, The Monsters, 315.
166 “I am Mary Shelley”: Ibid.
167 “had the most beautiful deep-set eyes . . .”: Ibid.
167 “She is in herself . . .”: Rees, Shelley’s Jane Williams, 167.
167 “It is old fashioned . . .”: R. Glynn Grylls, Mary Shelley: A Biography, 251.
169 “I walk very well . . .”: Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws, 535.
169 “did not do her the least good”: Jones, ed., The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. 2, 357.