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Authors: Richard Holmes
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37
. ibid., p. 592.
38
.
Letters
, I, No. 148, p. 200.
39
. ibid., No. 148, p. 201.
40
. ibid., No. 148, p. 202.
41
.
Letters
, I, No. 155, p. 213.
42
. ibid., No. 155, p. 214.
43
. The letter of 4 January 1812 to Grosvenor Bedford:
Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey
, ed. C.C. Southey, 1850, III, p. 325.
44
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 291.
45
.
Letters
, I, No. 155, pp. 210–12.
46
. Mary Moorman,
William Wordsworth; A biography
, 2 vols, II, p. 239, 1965.
47
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 215.
48
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 219 n. 10.
49
.
Letters
, I, No. 156, p. 216.
50
. ibid., No. 161, p. 233.
51
. ibid., No. 160, p. 231.
52
. ibid., No. 156, p. 218.
53
. ibid., No. 157, pp. 219–21.
54
. ibid., No. 159, pp. 221–8.
55
. That is to say:
Letters
, I, No. 24, p. 21 (19 November 1810); No. 30, p. 27 (20 December 1810); and No. 41, p. 47 (16 January 1811).
56
. See Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, pp. 307–8.
57
.
Letters
, I, No. 160, p. 230.
58
. ibid.
59
. ibid.
60
. ibid., No. 160, p. 231.
61
. ibid.
62
. Cameron,
Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical
, p. 142. For a careful examination of Shelley’s lively plagiarisms, see Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, II, pp. 341–3.
63
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 878–9.
64
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 40.
65
.
Letters
, I, No. 158, p. 223.
66
. ibid., No. 161, p. 234.
67
.
Esdaile
, p. 154.
68
. ibid., p. 63.
69
.
Letters
, I, No. 163, p. 243.
70
. ibid., No. 150, p. 204.
71
. ibid., No. 151, p. 205.
72
. ibid., No. 152, pp. 205–6.
73
. ibid., No. 152, p. 206.
74
. ibid., No. 161, p. 232.
75
. ibid., No. 162, p. 239.
76
.
Cumberland Pacquet
, 28 January 1812, from the Carlisle Public Library Archive. Note: from Dowden down to Professor Jones’s edition of
Letters
, this date had been consistently given as 28 January 1811. This error now stands corrected.
77
.
Letters
, I, No. 162, p. 240.
78
. ibid., No. 162, p. 240.
79
. ibid., No. 162, p. 241.
80
. ibid.
81
. ibid., No. 164, p. 244.
82
. ibid., No. 162, p. 240.
83
. ibid., No. 162, p. 241.
84
. ibid., No. 167, p. 252.
85
.
Esdaile
, p. 43.
86
.
Letters
, I, No. 164, p. 247.
87
. ibid., No. 164, p. 246.
88
. ibid., No. 164, p. 248.
89
. ibid., No. 165, p. 249.
90
. ibid., No. 165, p. 248.
91
. ibid., No. 165, p. 249.
Chapter 5, Irish Revolutionaries: 1812
1
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 203 n. 2.
2
. ibid., p. 71.
3
.
Letters
, I, No. 167, p. 255.
4
. ibid., No. 168, p. 256.
5
. ibid., No. 170, p. 258.
6
. ibid., No. 172, p. 65. (Here, as elsewhere, Harriet has shared the letter to Miss Hitchener with Shelley.)
7
.
Prose
, p. 39.
8
.
Letters
, I, No. 172, p. 263.
9
.
Prose
, p. 51.
10
. ibid., p. 49.
11
.
Letters
, I, No. 162, p. 239.
12
.
Prose
, p. 55.
13
. ibid.
14
. William Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 173, p. 269 n. 6. The text of this letter comes from Hogg, op. cit.
15
. William Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 170, p. 260, n. 8. An incomplete text, also from Hogg, op. cit.
16
.
Letters
, I, No. 173, p. 267.
17
.
Letters
, I, No. 172, pp. 264–5.
18
. Denis Florence Mac Carthy,
Shelley’s Early Life: From Original Sources
, London 1870, pp. 238–41. Mac Carthy was the first writer to examine Shelley’s exploits in Dublin with any care. The two English agents were Michael Farrell, a ‘chief constable’, and Thomas Manning, who ‘held an inferior position’.
19
.
Letters
, I, No. 175, p. 275.
20
. ibid., No. 172, p. 264.
21
. ibid.
22
. ibid., No. 173, p. 268.
23
. ibid., No. 174, p. 271.
24
. ibid.
25
. Harriet Shelley in
Letters
, I, No. 176, p. 279 n. 5. The text comes from Mac Carthy, op. cit.
26
. ibid., No. 178, p. 283 n. 8. (Harriet Shelley’s letters were first collected in the Julian Edition,
The Complete Works of Shelley
, ed. Ingpen and Peck, 10 vols, 1926–30. However, Harriet’s letters are also given in full by F. L. Jones in his footnotes to
Letters
, I, and since these are the most easily accessible to the general reader, I have listed my references accordingly.)
27
.
Letters
, I, No. 175, p. 275.
28
. Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 173, pp. 269–70, n. 6.
29
.
Prose
, p. 62.
30
.
Letters
, I, No. 176, pp. 276–7.
31
. ibid., No. 176, p. 278.
32
. ibid., No. 177, p. 280.
33
.
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 282.
34
. ibid., No. 176, p. 279 n. 5.
35
. ibid., No. 172, p. 264.
Chapter 6, A Radical Commune
1
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 284 n. 8.
2
. ibid., p. 281.
3
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, p. 105.
4
.
Letters
, I, No. 190, p. 301.
5
. ibid., No. 181, p. 287.
6
. ibid., No. 190, p. 301.
7
. ibid., No. 187, p. 296.
8
. ibid., No. 178, p. 282.
9
. ibid., No. 187, p. 297.
10
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.
11
.
Letters
, I, No. 181, p. 287.
12
. ibid., No. 178, p. 283.
13
. ibid., No. 180, p. 285.
14
. ibid., No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.
15
. Mac Carthy,
Shelley’s Early Life
, p. 310.
16
. ibid., p. 321.
17
. ibid., p. 313.
18
.
Prose
, pp. 70–2.
19
.
Letters
, I, No. 178, p. 281.
20
. ibid., No. 190, p. 302.
21
. ibid., No. 186, p. 295.
22
. ibid., No. 182, p. 288.
23
. ibid., No. 184, pp. 290–1.
24
. ibid., No. 185, p. 292.
25
. ibid., No. 186, p. 294.
26
. ibid., No. 186, pp. 294–5.
27
. ibid., No. 186, p. 296.
28
. Medwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 188a n. 1.
29
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 192, p. 305 n. 1.
30
.
Letters
, I, No. 191, pp. 302–3.
31
. ibid., No. 192, p. 304.
32
.
Letters
, I, No. 193, p. 306.
33
.
Examiner
, 31 May 1812.
34
.
Letters
, I, No. 194, p. 307.
35
. ibid., No. 195, p. 308.
36
. ibid., No. 195, p. 309.
37
. ibid., No. 196, p. 311.
38
. Harriet Shelley to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 195, pp. 309–10 n. 2.
39
. The Home Office papers and policing instructions were first examined and published in full by William Rossetti in the
Fortnightly Review
, January 1871, p. 79.
40
.
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 319.
41
. ibid., No. 196, p. 311.
42
. Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 197, p. 313 n. 1.
43
. Rossetti, op. cit., p. 78.
44
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 321 no. 6.
45
. Rossetti, op. cit., p. 79.
46
.
Esdaile
, p. 89.
47
.
Letters
, I, No. 197, p. 314.
48
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 320 n. 6.
49
.
Letters
, I, No. 198, p. 318.
50
.
Letters
, II, No. 501, p. 99. To Peacock, June 1819.
51
.
Letters
, I, No. 198, p. 316.
52
. ibid., No. 198, p. 318.
53
. ibid., No. 199, p. 319.
54
. ibid., No. 201, p. 323.
55
. ibid.
56
.
Prose
, p. 74.
57
. T.B. Howell,
A Complete Collection of State Trials
, 1823, XXI, pp. 928–9.