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184 “My life might have”: F1818, 7.
184-85 “I shall commit”: ibid., 8-9.
185 “[My] ambition leads me”: Beaglehole, J. C., 365.
185 “There, Margaret”: F1818, 5-6.
185 “Learn from me”: ibid., 35.
186 A modern feminist critic: Mellor, 274-86.
186 “Frankenstein discovered”: F1818, 179.
187 “eloquence is forcible”: ibid.
187 “Listen to my tale”: ibid., 78.
187 “even power over”: ibid., 178.
187 “The ice”: ibid., 183.
187 “I am a blasted tree”: ibid., 133.
188 “Seek happiness”: ibid., 186.
188 “Yet why do I say”: ibid.
188 “demon . . . voice of”: ibid., 187.
188 “fallen angel”: ibid., 189.
188 “I shall ascend”: ibid., 191.
188 “He sprung from”: ibid.
189 “How very vividly”: JMWS, 172.
190 “igmatic . . . enigmatic . . .” et al.: Anne K. Mellor discusses in detail the changes Percy made to Mary’s manuscript
on pages 58-69 of her insightful book,
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters.
191 “My health has been”: LPBS, I, 428.
192 “I am just now”: LMWS, I, 46.
192 “I am tired”: ibid., 42-43.
192 “Poor little angel!”: CC, I, 110.
192 “I know not”: LMWS, I, 57.
193 “Devilman”: Peacock,
Nightmare Abbey,
211-12.
193 “Mrs. Shelley, tho’”: LPBS, I, 583.
193 “The event on which . . .” et al.: F1818, 3-4.
194 “[
Frankenstein
] is piously dedicated”: Brewer,
Mental Anatomies,
17.
195 “perhaps the foulest toadstool”: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.” In Thomson et al., 393.
195 “Nothing attracts us”: Rieger, “Dr. Polidori,” 462.
195 “It is no slight merit”: Walling, 34.
195 “the most wonderful”: ibid., 23.
195 “a wonderful work”: BLJ, VI, 125.
195 “Mary has just”: CC, I, 111.
196 “Treat a person”: Bloom,
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,
27.
196 “a thin patrician-looking”: Sunstein, 147-48.
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198 “Who telleth”: PWPBS, 524.
198 “We are all”: LPBS, II, 1.
198 “The country is”: JMWS, 197.
198 “we can see”: ibid., 199.
199 “The snows”: ibid., 201.
199 “. . . to inform you”: LPBS, II, 5.
199 “for fear that”: Gittings and Manton, 41-42.
199 “You write as if”: LPBS, II, 10-11.
200 “Shelley has got to Milan”: BLJ, VI, 37.
200 “Remember that I am”: CC, I, 115.
200 “They dress her”: Blunden, 212.
200 “I could never”: JMWS, 67.
201 “Mrs. Gisborne is”: LPBS, II, 114.
201 “we have a small”: LMWS, I, 72.
202 “as beautiful as ever . . . extreme horror”: LPBS, II, 36.
202 “face had become pale”: Minta, 192.
202 “He associates with”: LPBS, II, 58.
202 “So we’ll go no more”: PLB, 101.
203 “He is a person”: PWPBS, 189.
203 “passionately attached”: ibid., 290.
204 “I have done for”: LPBS, II, 37.
204 “not well”: JMWS, 224.
204 “. . . we have arrived”: LMWS, I, 78-79.
205 “This is the Journal”: JMWS, 226.
205 “All this is”: LPBS, II, 40-41.
205 “I have not been without”: ibid., 42.
206 “I sincerely sympathize”: St. Clair, 460-61.
206 “Wilt thou forget”: PWPBS, 553.
207 “not well”: JMWS, 246.
208 “A most tremendous fuss”: ibid., 249.
208 “with sweet laughing”: F1818, 47.
209 “William is very ill”: JMWS, 265.
209 “William is in the greatest”: LMWS, I, 99.
209 “William is dead!”: F1818, 52.
209 “I am going to write”: LMWS, I, 100.
210 “I never know one”: ibid., 101-02.
210 “Yesterday after an illness”: LPBS, II, 97.
210 “My lost William”: PWPBS, 581.
211 “Mourning in thy robe”: ibid., 559.
211 “Ha! Thy frozen pulses”: ibid., 560.
211 “My dearest Mary”: ibid., 582.
212 “We cannot yet come”: LPBS, II, 109.
212 “selfishness and ill humour”: Seymour, 234.
212 “I had thought you”: Mellor, 194.
212 “Your letters”: LPBS, II, 227.
213 “I went to the Egham races”: Walling, 34.
213 “What has been the fate”: LPBS, II, 103.
213 “I begin my journal”: JMWS, 293.
213 “That time is gone for ever”: ibid.
214 “I am sorely afraid”: CC, I, 127.
214 “a few days after my birth”: Shelley, Mary,
Mathilda,
155.
214 “He was a sincere”: ibid., 153.
215 “One idea rushed on”: ibid., 173.
215 “. . . rise from under my blighting”: ibid., 180.
215 “His genius was transcendant”: ibid., 191.
215 “He soon took great interest”: ibid., 195.
215 “Woodville for ever”: ibid.
216 “I am alone”: ibid., 151.
216 “I go from this world”: ibid., 210.
216 “disgusting and detestable”: Jones,
Gisborne,
44.
217 “small but healthy”: LPBS, II, 151.
217 “he is my only one”: LMWS, I, 114.
217 “after the frightful events”: LPBS, II, 227.
218 “O Wild West Wind . . . Spring be far behind?”: PWPBS, 577-79.
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219 “Lord Ruthven had disappeared”: Bleiler, 283.
219 “If there is in this world”: Bunson, xi.
220 “But first, on earth”: PLB, 262-63.
221 “a man of considerable”: Bleiler, 287.
221 “his countenance”: ibid., 291.
222 “A considerable change”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
100.
222 “sign of reconciliation”: ibid., 102.
222 “I had no use for”: BLJ, V, 122.
222 “We have parted”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
102.
223 “your letter produced”: ibid., 108.
223 “pimp”: Longford, 112.
223 “There were fifteen”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
122.
224 “The Doctor Polidori”: BLJ, XI, 164.
224 “It is, however”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
144.
224-25 “Instead of making out”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
107.
225 “
delicat
e declension”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
147.
225 “Dear Doctor—I have read your play”: BLJ, V, 258.
227 “[Here is] a copy of a thing”: Bleiler, xxxvi.
227 “As the person referred to”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
181.
228 “If the book is clever”: BLJ, VI, 119.
229 “deadly hue . . . dead grey eye”: Bleiler, 265.
229 “one whose strength”: ibid., 273.
229 “conceal all you know”: ibid., 276.
229 “Remember your oath!”: ibid., 279.
230 “Lord Ruthven had disappeared”: ibid., 283.
231 “death, he remembered”: ibid., 280.
231 “The tale here presented”: ibid., xxxvii.
233 “In every town”: ibid.,
Vampyre,
268.
234 “departed this Life”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
237.
234 “I have been left”: ibid., 238.
234 “I was convinced”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
104.
235 “I then said”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
241.
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236 “I am ashes”: PLB, 112.
237 “Which ‘piece’”: BLJ, VI, 92.
237 “She was not”: MacCarthy, 360.
237 “My first wish”: CC, I, 127.
238 “I wish to see”: BLJ, VI, 213.
238 “very droll”: BLJ, VI, 223.
238 “I was rather disappointed”: Gronow, 212.
239 “celestial apparition”: Marchand, II, 775.
239 “already the subject”: ibid., 775.
239 “I was strong enough”: ibid., 777.
239 “I am in love”: BLJ, VI, 108.
240 “I am drilling very hard”: BLJ, VII, 28.
241 “which shines among”: ibid., VII, 80.
241 “I so totally disapprove”: ibid.
241 “A letter from Mad[ame]”: JCC, 145.
242 “she shall be taught”: CC, I, 144-45.
242 “The woman is”: BLJ, VII, 151.
242 “I must decline”: ibid., VII, 162.
242 “Clare [
sic
] writes me”: ibid, VII, 174-75.
243 “Each time she came”: CC, I, n130.
244 “to become a good”: Gittings and Manton, 58.
244 “the state of ignorance”: CC, I, 163.
244 “The moral part”: CC, I, 165.
245 “I am no enemy”: BLJ, IX, 119.
245 “I am afraid that”: ibid, IX, 123.
245 “Whether the convent”: CC, I, n166.
245 “I send you”: LPBS, II, 308.
245 reviews of
Don Juan
: Trueblood, 30-32.
246 “Saturday August 4th”: JCC, 245.
246 “which you only can”: LPBS, II, 319.
246 “ever been undisturbed”: LMWS, I, 207.
246 “I write nothing”: LPBS, II, 331.
247 “not much like”: ibid., II, 334-35.
247 “Her light & airy”: ibid.
247 “Before I went away”: ibid.
247 “knows certain orazioni”: ibid.
248 “a very pretty”: ibid., II, 363.
248 “It was said that”: Tomalin,
Shelley,
103.
248 “My Dear Papa”: BLJ, VIII, 226.
249 “sincere enough but”: ibid.
249 “Just before Empoli”: JCC, 253.
249 reviews of
Don Juan
: Trueblood, 37, 42.
249 “My dear Friend”: CC, I, 170.
250 “L. B. would use”: LPBS, II, 398.
250 “a shrug of impatience”: Marchand, III, 975.
250 “I am truly uneasy”: CC, I, 171.
250 “If there is any”: Marchand, III, 992.
250 “extraordinary qualities”: ibid.
251 “A mortal paleness”: ibid., 993.
251 “felt the loss”: MacCarthy, 419.
251 “The blow was stunning”: BLJ, IX, 147-48.
252 “I tried the whole”: CC, I, 199.
252 “I will not describe”: LPBS, II, 415.
252 “I wish I had never”: Grosskurth, 402.
253 memorial tablet: ibid., 404.
253 “the present doormat”: Marchand, III, n1001.
253 “the epitome or miniature”: MacCarthy, 420.
253 “While she lived”: Marchand, III, 994.
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254 “That time is dead”: PWPBS, 546.
255 “It seems as if”: LPBS, II, 211.
255 “A bad wife”: JCC, 123.
255 “Heigh-ho, the Clare”: JCC, 153.
255 “A better day”: JMWS, 320.
255 “Claire is yet”: LPBS, II, 218.
256 “disturb her quiet”: ibid., 228.
256 “I should be very glad”: ibid., 267.
256 “It was nearly seven”: JMWS, n337-38.
257 “He is a great loss”: LPBS, II, 297.
257 “The poor people”: White, II, 243.
257 “where she sees”: LMWS, I, 165.
257 “It is grievous to see”: ibid., 172.
258 “He was inconstant”: Hodgart, 91.
258 “Here are we then”: LPBS, II, 448.
258 “an idealized history”: ibid., 434.
258 “I never thought”: PWPBS, 413.
258 “O Comet beautiful”: ibid., 419.
258 “And all my being”: ibid., 418.
259 “I make its author”: LPBS, II, 263.
259 “died at Florence”: ibid., n263.
259 “There are other verses”: Norman, 144.
259 “an extremely pretty”: LPBS, II, 256-57.
259 “Jane is certainly”: LMWS, I, 180.
260 “Our ducking last night”: LPBS, II, 286.
260 “was so full of
Ghosts
”: BLJ, VIII, 74.
260 “they lock them up”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
73.
261 “six feet high”: LMWS, I, 218.
261 “the personification of my”: Trueblood, 114.
261 “He tells strange stories”: JMWS, 391.
261-62 “She brought us back”: Trelawny, 172-73.
262 “We talked and laughed”: ibid., 197.
262 “Poor Mary!”: ibid., 196.
262 “Thus on that night”: JMWS, n390.
262 “Let me in my”: ibid., 399-400.
263 “I commit them”: LPBS, II, 437.
263 “The sea came up”: PWPBS, 676.
263 “The gales and squalls”: ibid., 677.
264 “Our near neighbors”: ibid.
264 “I have lived too long”: Minta, 203.
264 “I despair of rivalling”: LPBS, II, 323-24.
264 “I always find the bottom”: Trelawny, 190.
264 “Shelley was looking careworn”: Gronow, 124.
265 “Less oft is peace”: Norman, 94.
265 “languor and hysterical affections”: LPBS, II, 427.
265 “No words can tell”: LMWS, I, 244.
265 “I had no fear”: JMWS, 562.
265 “I only feel the want”: LPBS, II, 435.
266 “There it is again . . . lively imagination”: Jones,
Gisborne and Williams,
147.
266 “How long do you mean”: LMWS, 245.
266 “Shelley had often”: ibid.
266 “walk into a little wood”: Moore, II, 388.
267 “They could hardly walk”: LMWS, I, 245.
267 “be a comfort to me”: LPBS, II, 433.
267 “Whether [my] life had been”: PWPBS, 515.
267 “Then, what is life”: ibid., 520.
268 “I have not a moments”: LPBS, II, 444.
268 “I fear you are solitary”: ibid., 445.
268-69 “for they say . . . going into convulsions”: LMWS, I, 247.
269 “I had risen”: ibid.
269 “I never can forget”: Lovell,
Lady Blessington’s,
53.
270 “I went up the stairs”: Trelawny, 218.
270 “Are we to resemble that”: MacCarthy, 429.
270 “a dark and ghastly . . . soaring over us”: Trelawny, 223.
271 “more wine”: ibid., 223-224.
271 “We sang, we laughed”: Hunt, II, 102.
271 “We have been burning”: BLJ, IX, 197.
271 “I called him back”: LMWS, I, 246.
272 “There is thus another”: BLJ, IX, 190.
272 “Those who know”: Norman, 15.
272 Other publications: White,
Hearth,
330-31.