Authors: Dorothy Hoobler
272 “Mr. Byshe [
sic
] Shelley”: ibid., 325.
272 “Mr. Shelley is unfortunately”: ibid., 329.
272 “Shelley the great Atheist”: Norman, 22.
272 “To lose an eldest son”: ibid., 19.
272 “That you should be so overcome”: ibid., 20.
273 “All that I expressed”: ibid., 20-21.
273 “He was the most gentle”: Lovell,
Lady Blessington’s,
52-53.
274 “And so here I am”: LMWS, I, 252.
274 “Drive my dead thoughts”: PWPBS, 579.
Chapter
13
: Glory and Death
275 “Now fierce remorse”: JMWS, 491.
276 “What a scene”: ibid., 435.
277 “But [except] for my Child”: ibid., 428.
277 “romantic beyond romance”: Williams, John, 94.
277 “Oh my beloved Shelley”: JMWS, 429-30.
277 “No one seems to understand”: ibid., 440-41.
277 “No one ever writes”: LMWS, I, 290.
277 “I would, like a dormouse”: ibid., 288.
277 “I am a lonely unloved thing”: JMWS, 448.
278 “I cannot write”: ibid., 462.
279 “Frankenstein is universally”: ibid., n457.
280 “To examine the causes”: Florry, 139.
280 “I was much amused”: LMWS, I, 378.
280 “attack [on] the Christian faith,” etc.: Florry, 5.
281 “lost divinity”: JMWS, 443.
281 “But were it not”: LMWS, I, 254.
281 “God has still one blessing”: ibid., I, 297.
281 “queer, unamiable and strange”: Norman, 55.
281 “The wisest & best”: JMWS, 483.
282 “I was worth something then”: JMWS, 471, 474.
282 “His life was spent”: PWPBS, xiii.
282 “I am convinced”: ibid., xiv.
283 “Sir T. writhes”: LMWS, I, 444.
283 “All contemplative existence”: Minta, 180.
283 “Shelley has more poetry”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
235.
284 “I do not think”: JMWS, 439-40.
285 “The isles of Greece”: PLB, 695.
285
Blackwood’s
and
Literary Gazette
reviews: Trueblood, 49-50.
285 “Yes! A grassy bed”: Franklin, 179.
286 “that he considered”: Gamba, 12.
286 “I was a fool”: Marchand, III, 1123.
287 “Is the Girl imaginative”: BLJ, XI, 47.
287 “Both [Byron’s] character”: Minta, 210.
287 “Be assured, My Lord”: Marchand, III, 1140.
288 “I especially dread”: Minta, 232.
289 “enduring the tedious details”: Longford, 200.
290 “’Tis time this heart”: PLB, 112.
291 “It [the seizure] was very painful”: BLJ, XI, 113.
291 “Lyon, thou art an honest”: Longford, 206.
291 “became pensive . . . fortune-teller in Scotland”: Marchand, III, 1212.
292 “Come, you are”: ibid., 1219.
292 “I fancy myself a Jew”: ibid., 1217.
292 “I want to sleep now”: ibid., 1228.
292 “the congenital malconformation”: ibid., 1231.
293 “All Greece . . . grave of a great man”: Minta, 275.
293 “With great grief”: Franklin, 177.
293 “This [Byron’s death] then was the”: JMWS, 477-78.
294 “not a vestige”: Eisler, 471.
294 “it went to my heart”: LMWS, I, 436-37.
294 “honor and fame”: MacCarthy, 539.
295 “Missolonghi groaned”: Marchand, III, 1235-36.
295 “People take for gospel”: Lovell,
Blessington’s Conversations,
220.
296 “I take a row on the lake”: Lovell,
His Very Self,
183-84.
296 Lady Caroline’s sister: Matthews, XXXII, 258.
297 “At the age of twenty six”: JMWS, 478-79.
Chapter
14
: Mary Alone
298 “Alone—alone—all”: JMWS, 573.
298 “The last man”: ibid., 476-77.
298 “On this very day”: LMWS, I, 438.
299 “Tears fill my eyes”: JMWS, 485.
299 “I am under a cloud”: LMWS, I, 438.
300 “Such writers as Byron”: Norman, 97.
300 “vow I made”: ibid., 72.
300 “his Satanic Majesty”: Lovell,
Medwin’s,
12.
300 “a source of great pain”: LMWS, I, 455.
301 “very gentle and feminine”: Feldman, 612.
301 “very agreeable”: JMWS, 501-02.
301 “seems to have known”: Feldman, 613.
301 “The great charm of the work”: LMWS, II, 101-02.
302 “the hope and consolation”: ibid, I, 495.
302 “Loveliest Janey”: ibid., I, 556.
302 “My friend has proved false”: JMWS, 502-03.
302 “I need companionship”: ibid., 498.
303 “Though I was conscious”: LMWS, II, 25-26.
303 “emphatically a man”: TLM, 35.
303 “his sensibility and courtesy”: ibid., 20.
303 “You know me”: LMWS, II, 72.
304 “Shelley’s life so far”: ibid, II, 194.
304 “What a folly is it”: JMWS, 489.
304 “I stick to
Frankenstein
”: CC, II, 341.
305 “If you would but know”: ibid., 342.
306 “in this world”: LMWS, I, 379.
306 “And now, once again”: F1831, 23.
306 “While I followed”: ibid., 45.
307 “Even now, as I commence”: ibid., 38.
307 “Destiny was too potent”: ibid., 46.
307 “The power of Destiny”: LMWS, I, 572.
307 “a deformed and abortive creation”: F1831, 46.
308 “He came to the university”: ibid., 67.
308 “I lived principally in the country”: ibid., 20.
308 “Teach him to think for himself?”: Mellor, 211.
309 “In person he is”: LMWS, II, 209.
309 “One day I said to him”: ibid.
309 “When I mentioned Tennyson’s”: Norman, 220.
310 “Everything under the sun”: Grylls,
William Godwin,
240.
310 “In weighing well”: Norman, 30.
310 “most people felt of Mr. Godwin”: De Quincey, III, 25.
310 “O my God”: JMWS, 548-49.
311 “The great work of life”: JMWS, 559.
311 “It was a frightful”: Walling, 135.
311 “I almost think”: JMWS, 559.
312 “In the first place”: JMWS, 553-54.
312 “His reading was not”: PWPBS, 836-37.
313 “the beautiful and ineffectual angel”: Bann, 37.
313 “The far Alps were hid”: Shelley,
Rambles,
148.
314 “Preserve always a habit”: JMWS, 573.
315 “I had been resting”: Rolleston, 27-28.
317 “Goodnight—I will go look”: LMWS, I, 261.
317 “It is not”: Sunstein, 384.
317 “Were the fairest Paradise”: CC, II, 327.
318 “you were a mere girl”: ibid.
318 “If I was in Italy”: Moore, Doris, 446.
318 “She [Mary] has compromised”: Grylls,
Claire Clairmont,
254-55.
319 “Claire always harps”: LMWS, II, 271.
319 “Don’t go, dear”: Rolleston, 41.
319 “a slender and pallid”: Norman, 239.
320 “I would willingly think”: Gittings and Manton, vii.
320 “She passed her life”: ibid., 245.
320 “lovely old lady”: Graham, 754.
320 “I think Shelley would have”: ibid., 755.
320 “With all my heart and soul”: ibid., 767.
Contemporary Sources
Bennett, Betty T., ed.,
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1980-88).
Bleiler, E. F., ed.,
Three Gothic Novels
(New York: Dover, 1966).
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
The Complete Poems,
ed. William Keach (London: Penguin, 1997).
De Quincey, Thomas,
Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey,
ed. David Masson (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1890).
Feldman, Paula R., and Diana Scott-Kilvert, eds.,
The Journals of Mary Shelley,
1814
-
1844
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
Gamba, Peter,
Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece
(London: John Murray, 1825).
Godwin, William,
Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft,
ed. W. Clark Durant (New York: Gordon Press, 1972).
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
The Sorrows of Young Werther
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1949).
Graham, William, “Chats with Jane Clermont [Claire Clairmont],”
The Nineteenth Century,
vol. 34, no. 201, 1893.
Gronow, Rees Howell,
The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow,
abridged and introduced by John L. Raymond (New York: Viking, 1964).
Hale, Terry, ed.,
Tales of the Dead: The Ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati
(Chislehurst, UK: Gothic Society, 1992).
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson,
The Life of Shelley
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1933).
Hunt, Leigh,
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt,
ed. Roger Ingpen (Westminster, UK: Archibald Constable, 1903).
Ingpen, Roger, and Walter E. Peck, eds.
Complete Works of Shelley
(New York: Gordian Press, 1965).
Jones, Frederick L., ed.,
The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964).
———, ed.,
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: Their Journals and Letters
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951).
Lamb, Lady Caroline,
Glenarvon,
afterword by Anne Fremantle (New York: Curtis, 1973).
Lovell, Ernest J., Jr., ed.,
His Very Self and Voice: Collected Conversations of Lord Byron
(New York: Macmillan, 1954).
———, ed.,
Lady Blessington’s Conversations of Lord Byron
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969).
———, ed.,
Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).
Marchand, Leslie A., ed.,
Byron’s Letters and Journals
(London: John Murray, 1973-79).
Marshall, Florence A.,
Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889).
Medwin, Thomas,
Life of Shelley
(revised) (St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1971).
Milton, John,
The Poetical Works of John Milton
(London: Oxford University Press, 1961).
Moore, Thomas,
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of His Life
(New York: George Dearborn, 1837).
Murray, E. B., ed.,
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
Ovid,
Metamorphoses,
trans. John Dryden (New York: Heritage Press, 1961).
Page, Norman, ed.,
Byron: Interviews and Recollections
(Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985).
Paul, C. Kegan,
William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries
(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876).
Peacock, Thomas Love,
Memoirs of Shelley
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1933).
———,
Nightmare Abbey
(Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1969).
Polidori, John William,
The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori,
ed. William Rossetti (London: E. Matthews, 1911).
———,
The Vampyre
(New York: Woodstock Books, 1990 reprint of 1819 ed.).
Rolleston, Maud,
Talks with Lady Shelley
(London: G. G. Harrap, 1925).
Shelley, Mary,
Frankenstein,
ed. Johanna Smith (Boston: Bedford Books, 1992).
———,
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour
(Otley, UK: Woodstock Books, 2002 reprint of 1817 ed.).
———,
Mathilda,
ed. Janet Todd (New York: New York University Press, 1992).
———,
Rambles in Germany and Italy,
ed. Jeanne Moskal (London: William Pickering, 1996).
Stocking, Marion Kingston, ed.,
The Clairmont Correspondence
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995).
———, ed.,
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).
Tannahill, Reay, ed.,
Paris in the Revolution
(London: The Folio Society, 1966).
Trelawny, Edward John,
The Recollections of Shelley and Byron
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1933).
Wardle, Ralph M., ed.,
Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979).
———, ed.,
Godwin and Mary
(Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1996).
Wollstonecraft, Mary,
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
(London: Penguin, 1987).
———,
Original Stories from Real Life
(Washington, DC: Woodstock Books, 2001 reissue of 1791 ed.).
———,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
ed. and introduction by Miriam Brody (London: Penguin, 1992).
———,
The Wrongs of Woman
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Woodcock, George, ed.,
Selections from
Political Justice (London: Freedom Press, 1943).
Secondary Sources
Armstrong, Margaret,
Trelawny: A Man’s Life
(New York: Macmillan, 1940).
Baldick, Chris,
In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
Bann, Stephen, ed.,
Frankenstein: Creation and Monstrosity
(London: Reaction Books, 1994).
Barber, Paul,
Vampires, Burial, and Death
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
Beaglehole, J. C.,
The Life of Captain James Cook
(London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974).
Bennett, Betty T., “Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
vol. 50, pp. 193-99.
Bennett, Betty T., and Stuart Curran, eds.,
Mary Shelley in Her Times
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2000).
Bloom, Harold,
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 1996).
———,
The Ringers in the Tower
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971).
Blumberg, Jane,
Mary Shelley’s Early Novels
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993).