Shelley: The Pursuit (162 page)

33
.
Mary
, No. 4, p. 5.

34
.
Claire
, p. 54.

35
. ibid., p. 58.

36
. ibid., p. 59.

37
.
Mary
, No. 4, p. 6.

38
. ibid., No. 274, p. 414.

39
. ‘Epipsychidion’,
Poetical Works
, p. 418.

40
.
Journal
, p. 25.

41
. Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, Appendix A, Mrs Godwin to Lady Mountcashell, p. 547. Mrs Godwin also informs us that the prices Shelley was rumoured to have paid her husband were: Mary £800 and Claire £700.

42
. Stocking in
Claire
, p. 3, gives an admirable summary of the history and vicissitudes of this MS.

43
.
Journal
, pp. 25–6.

44
. ibid., p. 29.

45
.
Prose
, p. 304.

46
. ibid., pp. 305–6.

47
.
Letters
, I, No. 281, p. 421 n. 2.

48
.
Journal
, p. 28.

49
.
Letters
, I, No. 281, p. 422 n. 2.

50
.
Poetical Works
, p. 526.

51
.
Journal
, p. 32.

52
. ibid., pp. 35–6.

53
. These omissions are noted by F. L. Jones in his edition of the journal. The original suppressions were presumably carried out by Lady Jane Shelley before she handed the MS of the journal to Dowden for his official biography; Dowden’s connivance is possible, but unlikely.

54
.
Journal
, p. 40.

55
. ibid., p. 40.

56
. ibid., p. 35.

57
. Mary to Hogg in
New Shelley Letters
ed. W.S. Scott, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, p. 80.

58
.
New Shelley Letters
, p. 81.
Letters
, I, No. 283, p. 423.

59
.
New Shelley Letters
, p. 82.

60
. ibid., p. 83.

61
.
Letters
, I, No. 284, p. 424 n. 3.

62
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, pp. 46–52; and Louise B. Boas, ‘Erasmus Perkins and Shelley’,
Modern Language Notes
, LXX, June 1955.

63
.
Journal
, p. 37.

64
.
New Shelley Letters
, pp. 84–5.

65
.
Journal
, p. 39.

66
. ‘Epipsychidion’,
Poetical Works
, p. 413.

67
.
Journal
, p. 42.

68
.
New Shelley Letters
, p. 86.

69
. ibid., p. 87.

70
.
Letters
, I, No. 287, p. 426.

71
. ibid., No. 310, pp. 439–40.

72
. ibid., No. 314, p. 445.

Chapter 12, Up the River: Bishopsgate 1815

1
.
Letters
, I, No. 290, p. 429.

2
.
Mary
, No. 17, p. 8.

3
.
Peacock, Memoirs, Essays and Reviews
, pp. 41–2.

4
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 525–6.

5
.
Letters
, I, No. 291, p. 429.

6
. ibid., No. 291, p. 430.

7
. Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, I, p. 529.

8
. ibid.

9
.
Peacock
, p. 59.

10
.
Crotchet Castle
, by T. L. Peacock, Ch. 10, in
Works
, 1875, Vol. II, p. 244.

11
.
Prose
, p. 186.

12
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 524–5.

13
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 530.

14
.
Prose
, p. 184.

15
. ibid., p. 185.

16
. ibid., pp. 193–4.

17
.
Letters
, I, No. 294, p. 432.

18
.
Peacock
, p. 60.

19
.
Prose
, p. 172.

20
.
Prose
, p. 174. See Arthur Koestler ‘A Conference on Brain Function’, paper given at UCLA, 1967, republished in
Drinkers of Infinity
, 1967.

21
.
Prose
, p. 170.

22
.
Poetical Works
, p. 25.

23
. ibid., p. 26.

24
. ibid., p. 28.

25
. ibid., p. 20.

26
. ibid., p. 21.

27
.
Peacock
, p. 60.

28
.
Poetical Works
, p. 18.

29
. ibid., pp. 18–19.

30
.
Prose
, p. 222.

31
. But see Edward E. Bostetter,
Shelley and the Mutinous Flesh
, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, I, 1959.

32
.
Poetical Works
, p. 30.

33
. Godwin’s Diary, in
Letters
, I, No. 299, p. 435 n. 1.

34
. Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, II, p. 436.

35
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 725–6.

36
. ibid., p. 731.

37
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 105.

38
. ibid., pp. 105–6.

39
. ibid., pp. 107–8.

40
.
Letters
, I, No. 373, p. 517.

41
. ibid., No. 327, p. 462.

42
. From the ‘Journal of Maria Gisborne’ in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
ed. F. L. Jones, University of Oklahoma Press, 1951, p. 39.

43
.
Letters
, I, No. 310, p. 440.

44
. ibid., No. 315, p. 447.

45
. ibid., No. 319, p. 450.

46
. ibid., No. 322, p. 453.

47
. Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, p. 461.

48
.
Letters
, I, No. 324, p. 459.

49
. ibid., No. 326, p. 460.

50
. Godwin’s Diary in
Letters
, I, No. 334, p. 465 n. 2.

51
. Marchand,
Byron: a Biography
Vol. II, p. 590.

52
. ibid., p. 591.

53
. Murray MSS.

54
. ibid.

55
. ibid.

Chapter 13, The Byron Summer: Switzerland 1816

1
. Murray MSS.

2
. ibid.

3
. ibid.

4
. Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, pp. 460–2.

5
.
Letters
, I, No. 346, p. 471.

6
. See
Letters
, I, No. 365.

7
.
Letters
, I, No. 344, p. 470.

8
. ibid., No. 346, p. 473.

9
.
Mary
, No. 18, p. 9.

10
. Murray MSS.

11
.
Mary
, No. 18, p. 10.

12
.
History of a Six Weeks Tour
(1817).

13
.
Letters
, I, No. 348, p. 475.

14
. Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
, 1817, Signet Classic, 1965, Ch. 22, pp. 183–4.

15
.
Letters
, I, No. 348, p. 475. No. private journal of Mary’s survived for this year until the end of July. Claire’s diary for the whole of 1816 is also lost.

16
.
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), p. 122.

17
. R. Glynn Grylls (Lady Mander),
Claire Clairmont
, 1939, p. 64.

18
.
The Diary of William Polidori
, ed. W. Rossetti, 1911. Entry for 27 May, 1815.

19
. Marchand,
Byron: A Biography
, Vol. II, p. 627.

20
.
Polidori
, 1–5 June 1816.

21
. ibid.

22
.
Frankenstein
, p. x.

23
.
Polidori
, 18th June, 1816.

24
.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals
, Rowland E. Prothero (ed.), John Murray, 1898–1901. Vol. IV, p. 297.

25
.
Frankenstein
, p. x–xi.

26
. ibid., Ch. 2.

27
. ibid., Ch. 7.

28
. ibid., Ch. 10.

29
. ibid., Ch. 20.

30
. ibid., Ch. 15.

31
. ibid., Ch. 18.

32
. ibid., Ch. 22.

33
. ibid., Ch. 23.

34
. ibid., Ch. 5, p. 57.

35
. ibid., Ch. 10, pp. 95–6.

36
.
Prose
, pp. 307–8.

37
.
Letters
, I, No. 353, pp. 480–8.

38
. Thomas Moore,
A Life of Byron
, 1844, p. 320.

39
.
Letters
, I, No. 354, p. 490.

40
.
Journal
, p. 51.

41
. ibid., p. 52.

42
.
Letters
, I, No. 358, p. 497.

43
. ibid., No. 358, p. 499.

44
.
Poetical Works
, p. 533.

45
. ibid., p. 535.

46
. Marchand, op. cit., II, p. 647.

47
.
On Shelley
, Edmund Blunden
et al
., Oxford, 1938. ‘The Atheist: an Incident at Chamonix’, Gavin de Beer, pp. 43–54.

48
. ibid.

49
.
Letters
, I, No. 358, pp. 501–2.

50
.
Journal
, p. 55.

51
.
Letters
, II, No. 652, pp. 328–9.

52
. Marchand, op. cit., II, p. 634. See also Murray MSS for a further undated fragment: ‘Everything is so awkward. We go so soon. Dearest pray come and see us, pray do. Goodbye. I cannot find a wafer S[helley] says he won’t look at my note so don’t be offended Goodbye dearest. Pray come and see us.’