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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.

Chapter
6
: The Summer of Darkness

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
7
: “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.