Authors: Dorothy Hoobler
81 “Jane’s horrors”: ibid., 20.
82 “our only wish”: ibid., 20-21.
82 Dippel story: Florescu.
82 “We read these verses”: Shelley, Mary,
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour,
68.
83 “Delightful row”: JCC, 42.
84 “Consider how far”: LPBS, II, 396.
84 “But he is so beautiful”: White,
Shelley,
I, 405.
84 “Here are we”: JMWS, 81.
85 “Let it suffice”: LPBS, I, 403.
86 “an Association”: JCC, 48.
86 “the conversation”: ibid.
86 “How horribly you look”: JMWS, 32.
86 “I stood thinking”: JCC, 48-49.
86 “Her countenance”: JMWS, 33.
86 “engaging in awful conversation”: ibid.
87 “How hateful it is”: JCC, 50-51.
87 “Converse with Jane”: JMWS, 36.
87 “Shelley and Jane”: ibid., 37.
87 “in the morning”: LMWS, 1.
87 “My beloved Mary”: LPBS, 411.
87 “I cannot raise money”: ibid., 410.
88 “She plagues my father”: LMWS, 3.
88 “Press me to you”: ibid., 3.
88 “Mary is unwell”: JMWS, 45.
88 Information on Andrew Crosse: Haining.
89 “He was pleased”: JMWS, 45.
89 “. . . get into an argument” and other quotes about Hogg: ibid., 46, 48.
90 “an overflowing”: Murray,
Prose Works of PBS,
I, 282.
90 “Next month”: Blunden, 134.
90 “As to his tenderness”: ibid.
90 “Very unwell”: JMWS, 49-50.
91 “You love me you say”: LMWS, 6.
91 “I hope it will cheer”: ibid., 9.
91 “Very ill all day”: JMWS, 45.
92 “the Man whom”: Mellor, 229.
93 “find my baby dead”: JMWS, 68.
93 “My dearest Hogg”: LMWS, 10-11.
93 “my little baby”: JMWS, 70.
94 “I see plainly”: ibid., 69.
94 “form her mind”: Gittings and Manton, 26.
94 “I am no doubt”: LMWS, I, 13.
94-95 Mary’s May 12 and May 13 entries: JMWS, 78.
95 “I begin a new”: ibid., 79.
95 “I am perfectly happy”: CC, I, 9-10.
96 “We ought not”: LMWS, I, 15-16.
97 “the very rooms”: CC, I, 14.
97 “We have all felt”: ibid., I, 15.
97 “William,
nepos,
born:” Grylls,
Godwin,
207.
Chapter
5
: The Most Dangerous Man in Europe
99 “She walks in beauty”: PLB, 77.
99 “so beautiful”: Lovell,
His Very Self,
169.
99 “I was struck”: Page, 82.
100 “His . . . lips and chin”: Medwin,
Journal of the Conversations,
233.
100 “That beautiful pale face”: MacCarthy, x.
100 “Sleeping Beauty!” Gronow, 122.
100 “bloated and . . . fat”: Eisler, 603.
101 “Nothing but hard biscuits”: Page, 18.
101 “I especially dread”: ibid., 143.
101 “a
cloven
foot”: Medwin,
Journal,
234.
101 “My dear Byron”: Gronow, 123.
102 “Deformity is daring”: PLB, 609.
102 “My passions were”: MacCarthy, 23.
102 “I recollect all”: Garrett, 11-12.
102 “used to come to bed”: Eisler, 40.
102 “Now my
beau ideal
”: Lovell,
Lady Blessington’s,
110.
104 “a very handsome man”: Grosskurth, 8.
105 “I believe I have had”: Marchand, I, 30.
105 “lame brat,” Quennell,
Byron,
130.
106 “a home, a world”: Gilmour, 118.
106 “I will cut myself”: BLJ, I, 49.
106 “My School friendships”: BLJ, IX, 44.
107 “put ‘the Ladies’”: Quennell,
Byron,
18.
107 “I will be obliged”: BLJ, I, 78.
107 “Yesterday my appearance”: ibid.
108 “That boy will be”: ibid., 111.
108 “I wear
seven
”: ibid., 114.
108 “I am buried”: ibid., 158.
109 “Adieu, adieu!”: PLB, 182.
110 “became the idol”: Gronow, 325.
110 “On foams the bull”: PLB, 192.
110 “If you make a proposal”: BLJ, I, 220.
111 “The scene was savage”: PLB, 201.
111 “that marble paradise”: Minta, 41.
111 “dying for love”: BLJ, I, 240.
111 “act of courtship”: Eisler, 246.
112 “female apparel”: ibid.
112 “I plume myself”: BLJ, I, 253.
112 “I see not much”: ibid., 238.
112 “Oh, thou Parnassus!”: PLB, 189.
113 “At twenty three”: BLJ, II, 47.
113 “I had but one friend”: Gilmour, 266.
113 “Some curse”: BLJ, II, 68.
113 “whom I once loved”: ibid., II, 110.
113 “Ours too the glance”: PLB, 63.
114 “I awoke one morning”: Franklin, 50.
114 “the child of imagination”: Mellor, 242.
115 “mad, bad”: Minta, 175.
116 “She absolutely besieged”: Page, 19.
117 “In 1815”: Graham, 759.
117 “Follow without hesitation”: Vaughan et al., 103.
119 “No man is safe”: Eisler, 350.
119 “I should like”: BLJ, II, 175.
119 “all the women”: MacCarthy, 167.
120 “Of what consequence”: Quennell,
Byron,
61.
121 “Thy cheek, thine eyes”: PLB, 268.
121 “a very pretty age”: Minta, 178.
121 “I am much afraid”: ibid.
121 “The great object”: Garrett, 7.
122 “I felt as if”: Minta, 181.
122 “We were married”: BLJ, IV, 249.
122 “[H]ad Lady B”: Longford, 71.
122 “the treaclemoon”: BLJ, III, 175.
122 “She—or rather”: BLJ, V, 91.
123 “You had better”: MacCarthy, 275.
123 “An utter stranger”: CC, I, 24-25.
124 “I have called twice”: ibid., 27.
124 “I am now wavering”: ibid., 30.
124 “Lasciate ogni”: ibid., 31.
124 “If you think ill”: ibid., 29.
125 “I will bring her”: ibid., 36.
125 “Will you be so good”: ibid., 39.
125 “Mary is delighted”: ibid., 40.
125 “Have you then”: ibid., 36.
125 “I was young”: Graham, 760.
126 “if a girl of eighteen”: BLJ, V, 162.
126 “God bless you”: CC, I, n37.
126 “I am unhappily”: MacCarthy, 273.
126 “I assure you”: CC, I, 40.
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127 “I busied myself”: F1831, 21-22.
128 “echo of the Infinite”: Mellor, 70.
128 “We have had lately”: BLJ, V, 86.
128-29 Mount Tambora statistics:
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1969 ed., XXIII, 104.
129 “when first I stepped”: Shelley,
Rambles in Germany and Italy,
I, 139.
129 “you will I suppose”: CC, I, 43.
129 “desolate . . . sublime”: Shelley,
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour,
93.
130 “the majestic”: ibid.
130 “I feel as happy”: LMWS, I, 18.
130 “saluted by”: ibid., 18.
130 “I leave this”: CC, I, 46.
130 “the curiosity to see”: Minta, 183.
132 “a madman”: MacDonald, 23.
132 “You wound my heart”: ibid., 24.
133 “The sea dashed over”: ibid., 60.
133 “As soon as he reached”: ibid., 62.
133 “I am very pleased”: Page, 148.
134 “First . . . I can hit”: Eisler, 511.
134 “not much after . . . I detest the cause”: BLJ, V, 76.
134 “I brought away”: BLJ, V, 78.
134 “a curst selfish”: Minta, 185.
134 “clouds were mountains”: MacCarthy, 289.
134 “Lake Leman woos me”: Longford, 98.
134 “I am sorry”: CC, I, 46.
135 “You will hardly believe”: Grosskurth, 278.
135 “It seems to me”: BLJ, V, 131.
136 “the author of”: Polidori,
Diary,
101.
136 “I have been”: CC, I, 47.
136 “Now—don’t scold”: BLJ, V, 92.
137 “We watch them”: LMWS, I, 20.
137 “often whilst the storms”: Polidori,
Vampyre,
xiv.
137 Oarsman’s account: Lovell,
His Very Self,
183.
137 “The sky is changed!”: PLB, 222.
138 “the prettiest place”: BLJ, V, 187-88.
138 “most intimate friends”: Lewalski, 9.
139 “There is no story”: MacCarthy, 295.
139 “it proved a wet”: Walling, 28.
139 “at about a mile”: CC, I, n53.
139 “With false Ambition”: PLB, 91.
140 “Now you who wish”: Polidori,
Diary,
123.
140 “After a moment”: Lovell,
His Very Self,
182-83.
141 “I despair of”: Tomalin,
Shelley,
55.
141 “Beauty sat on”: JMWS, 478.
141 “We often sat up”: Walling, 28.
142 “the nature of”: F1831, 22.
142 “What a pity”: Grylls,
Godwin,
151.
143 “phantasmagoria”: JMWS, 56.
144 “excited in us”: F1831, 25.
144 “You and I”: Sunstein, 121.
144 “There were four”: F1831, 21.
144 “I busied myself”: ibid., 21.
144 “The ghost-stories begun”: Page, 49.
145 “founded on the experiences”: F1831, 21.
145 “more apt to”: ibid., 21.
145 “Poor Polidori had”: ibid., 21.
146 “In short, the man”: Blunden, 134.
146 “Then drawing in”: Grebanier et al.,
English Literature,
IV, 201.
147 “. . . his lordship having”: Polidori,
Diary,
128.
147 “Have you thought of”: F1831, 22.
148 “various philosophical . . . listener”: ibid.
148 all, ibid., 22-23
149 all, ibid., 23.
Chapter
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: “A hideous phantom”
151 “Did I request thee”: Milton,
Paradise Lost,
Book X, ll. 743-45, 232.
151
“thought of a story”:
F1831, 23.
151 “It was on a dreary night”: ibid., 57.
151 “With an anxiety,” ibid., 57-58.
152 “the wretch”: ibid., 58.
153 “is an exceedingly”: LPBS, I, 489.
154 “precisely in the spot”: ibid., 486.
154 “himself quietly upon”: Moore, Thomas, II, 23.
154 “I knew that my companion”: LPBS, 483.
154 “a multitude of names”: LPBS, 485.
154 “I vowed that I”: PWPBS, 531.
156 “I eagerly inquired”: F1818, 24.
156 “Whence, I often asked”: ibid., 33-34.
157 “As the minuteness”: ibid., 35-36.
157 “A new species”: ibid., 36.
157 “Pursuing these reflections”: ibid.
158 “Who shall conceive”: ibid., 36-37.
158 “any person she”: Tomalin,
Shelley,
58.
158 “dreary night . . . dull yellow eye”: F1818, 38.
158 “I thought I saw”: ibid., 39.
159 one of Mary Wollstonecraft’s children’s books:
Original Stories from Real Life,
20-27.
159 “[H]is conversation”: F1818, 51.
160 “with sweet laughing”: ibid., 47.
160 “While I watched”: ibid., 56.
161 “I considered the being”: ibid., 57.
161 “Thou art a symbol”: PLB, 98.
162 “Whether with particles”: Ovid, 4-5.
163 “The day was cloudless”: JMWS, 113.
163 “[T]his appeared the most”: ibid., 115.
163 “[A]s we went along”: ibid.
163 “horrid avowal”: CC, I, n53.
163 “Nothing can be more desolate”: JMWS, 117.
164 “I . . . write my story”: ibid., 118.
164 “This is the most desolate”: ibid., 119.
164 “kiss our babe”: ibid., 121.
165 “afterwards we all”: JMWS, 125.
166 “a good man”: BLJ, IX, 18.
166 “that none could believe”: JMWS, 126.
167 “was, from the first”: F1831, 20.
167 “No father had watched”: F1818, 97.
168 “a true history”: ibid., 104-05.
169 “the minutest description”: ibid., 105.
170 “Remember, I shall be”: ibid., 140.
170 “She was there”: ibid., 165.
170 “While I still hung”: ibid., 166.
171 “All men hate”: ibid., 77.
171 “My dreadful fear”: CC, I, 70.
Chapter
8
: “I shall be no more . . .”
172 “He sprung from”: F1818, 191.
172 “Do not think”: ibid., 190.
174 “it is of the utmost”: CC, I, 81.
174 “stupid letter from F”: JMWS, 138.
174 “I depart immediately”: CC, I, 85.
174 “In the evening”: JMWS, 139.
174 “I have long determined”: Paul, II, 242.
174 “when I shall be”: F1818, 190.
175 “Mr. G. told me”: Jones,
Gisborne,
39.
175 “Go not to Swansea”: JMWS, n140.
175 “From the fatal day”: ibid.
176 “Her voice did quiver”: PWPBS, 546.
176 “modify and change”: Engar, Ann, “Mary Shelley and the Romance of Science” in Dabundo, 138.
177 “By painful experience”: Einstein, Albert,
Out of My Later Years
(New York: New York Philosophical Library, 1950), 144.
178 “Is it wrong”: Blunden, 161.
178 “I have not written”: Tomalin,
Shelley,
61.
178 “Too wretched”: Hodgart, 15.
178 “far advanced”: LPBS, I, n521.
179 “It seems that”: ibid., 521.
179 “I don’t think”: JMWS, n151.
179 “Poor Harriet”: ibid., 560.
180 “[Y]our nominal union”: LPBS, I, 521.
180 “Of course you are”: St. Clair, 415.
180 “was a change”: LPBS, I, 539-40.
180 “The piece of news”: Paul, II, 246.
181 “a marriage”: JMWS, 152.
181 “Another incident”: LMWS, I, 26.
181 “sends her affectionate”: ibid., 26.
181 “You know”: BLJ, V, 162.
182 “a house with a lawn”: LMWS, I, 22.
182 “A fire in his eye”: Blunden, 176-77.
182 “Claire has reassumed”: LPBS, I, 395.
182 “Her eyes are”: ibid.
183 “My affections are”: CC, I, 110.
183 “Shelley’s fullness”: JMWS, n158-59.
184 “She loved Scythrop”: Peacock,
Nightmare Abbey,
95-96.
184 “I had a dream”: LMWS, I, 32.