Shelley: The Pursuit (161 page)

24
. Cameron, op. cit., p. 274.

25
. Ernest Rose,
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
, XXVI, 1927.

26
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 98.

27
.
A Reply . . . to Queen Mab
, published by William Clark, July 1821. See
The Unextinguished Hearth
, pp. 62–95.

28
. E.S. Boas,
Modern Language Notes
, LXX, 1955.

29
. Forman, op. cit.

30
. Edward Williams, ‘Journal’ for Sunday, 30 June 1822; in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: Their Journals and Letters
, ed. F. L. Jones, 1951, p. 156.

31
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 794–5.

32
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 236, p. 367 n. 3.

33
. ibid.

34
.
Letters
, I, No. 236, pp. 366–7.

35
. Timothy Shelley in
Letters
, I, No. 236, p. 368 n. 4.

36
.
Letters
, I, No. 237, pp. 368–9.

37
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent in
Letters
, I, No. 242, p. 372 n. 1.

38
.
Letters
, I, No. 238, p. 369 n. 1.

39
. ibid., No. 243, pp. 372–3.

40
. Breese, Jones and Casson papers; Box 168, letter 165. David Ellis–Nanney to John Williams, 20 June 1815; from County Record Office, Caernarvon.

41
. ibid.

42
. Hogg,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, p. 5.

43
. ibid., p. 3.

44
.
Letters
, I, No. 239, p. 370.

45
. ibid., No. 245, p. 374.

46
. ibid., No. 247, p. 375.

47
. Hogg quoted in
Peacock: Memoirs, Essays and Reviews
, p. 37.

48
.
Peacock
, p. 37.

49
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 248, p. 377 n. 2. (From High Elms, 8 August 1813.)

50
.
Peacock
, p. 38.

51
. Hogg, op. cit., II, p. 39.

52
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 248, p. 377 n. 2. (From High Elms, 10 September 1813.)

53
. ibid.

54
.
Letters
, I, No. 249, p. 377.

55
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 249, p. 378 n. 3. (From Ambleside, 11 October 1813.)

56
.
Letters
, I, No. 250, p. 380.

57
. ibid., No. 250, p. 381 n. 5.

58
.
Prose
, pp. 91–2.

59
. ibid., p. 94.

60
.
Letters
, I, No. 250, p. 380.

61
. ibid.

62
.
Peacock
, p. 43.

63
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 249, p. 379 n. 3. (From Edinburgh, 23 November 1813.)

64
.
Letters
, I, No. 250, pp. 379–80.

65
. Godwin’s ‘Diary’ yet remains unpublished, but extracts appear in Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
White, op. cit., and Professor Jones’s footnotes in
Letters. Letters
, I, No. 252, p. 382 n. 2.

66
. Godwin’s letters to Shelley between December 1813 and April 1814 are listed in
Letters
, I, No. 255, p. 386 n. 1.

67
.
Letters
, I, No. 253, p. 385.

68
. Hogg, op. cit., II, p. 134.

69
. ibid., pp. 143–4.

70
.
Letters
, I, No. 252, p. 382.

71
. See
Letters
, I, No. 255, p. 386.

72
. Godwin’s ‘Diary’ in
Letters
, I, No. 257B, p. 388 n. 2.

73
.
Letters
, I, No. 258, p. 390.

74
. Hogg, op. cit., I, pp. 337–8.

75
.
Letters
, I, No. 253, p. 384.

76
.
Claire
, pp. 60–3.

77
.
Letters
, I, No. 265, p. 402.

78
. ibid.

79
. Hogg, op. cit., II, p. 154.

80
.
Letters
, I, No. 255 (probably 14 April 1814); No. 257 (14 May, 1814).

81
.
Letters
, I, No. 257, p. 387.

82
. ibid., No. 257A, pp. 387–8.

83
.
Claire
, p. 431. The punctuation strokes are Jane’s own: I think she was attempting to write a kind of poetic prose description, which expressed something of the intensity of her feelings for her stepsister.

84
.
Poetical Works
, p. 522.

85
. For a preliminary discussion of Mary’s fictional portraits of Shelley, see Peck, ‘The Biographical Element in the Novels of Mary Shelley’, in
P.M.L.A.
, XXXVI, 1923.

86
. R. Glynn Grylls,
Claire Clairmont
, John Murray, 1939, p. 15.

87
. Godwin to John Taylor,
Letters
, I, No. 258, p. 391, n. 3.

88
. Godwin’s ‘Diary’ in
Letters
, I, No. 256, p. 386, n. 1. The entry reads, ‘M . . . . fr Nash, fin.’

89
. ibid.,
Letters
, I, No. 257B, p. 388 n. 1.

90
.
Peacock
, p. 54.

91
.
Letters
, I, No. 258, pp. 389–90.

92
. Quoted in
Claire
, p. 22, from the original entry in Mary’s journal, Abinger MSS.

Chapter 10, Three for the Road: Europe 1814

1
. All quotations in this chapter, unless otherwise stated, are from the journal kept by Mary and Shelley together during the tour, and published in the inappropriately named
Mary Shelley’s Journal
, ed. F. L. Jones, 1947. It is important to note that this edition is not taken directly from the original MS Journal now in the Abinger MSS collection, and since 1952 on microfilm at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Duke University Library, North Carolina. In particular, Professor Jones’s allocations of sections either to Mary or Shelley is unreliable; and occasional interesting phrases and remarks of a personal nature are missing. I have incorporated the MS rather than the published readings into my text wherever suitable. Some of the MS readings are given in M.K. Stocking’s excellent footnotes in
Claire
, to which I have not hesitated to refer.

2
.
Claire
, 27 August 1814, p. 31.

3
.
Claire
, p. 442. Mary Shelley’s whole review, ‘The English in Italy’ of October 1826, printed in Appendix A.

4
. Abinger MS reading of the
Journal
for 12 August 1814, quoted in Stocking, p. 22.

5
.
Letters
, I, No. 259, p. 392.

6
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent, 25 August 1814.
Letters
, I, No. 259, p. 393 n. 5.

7
.
Letters
, I, No. 259, p. 392.

8
.
Claire
, August 15, 1814, p. 22.

9
. ibid., 17 August, p. 26.

10
. Pforzheimer III, p. 350. The Pforzheimer library’s MS of Jane’s (Claire’s) journal is a later and revised one, separate from B.M. Ashley MS, which Marion Stocking has used.

11
.
Claire
, 18 August, p. 26.

12
. ibid., 19 August, p. 27.

13
.
Prose
, pp. 146–7.

14
.
Claire
, p. 29.

15
. ibid., 24 August, p. 30.

16
. In Mary’s published
History of a Six Weeks Tour
, 1817.

17
.
Prose
, p. 149.

18
. ibid., p. 148.

19
. ibid., p. 150.

20
.
Claire
, 27 August, p. 31.

21
.
Journal
, 27 August, p. 12.

22
.
Claire
, 27 August, p. 31.

23
.
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, H. B. Forman (ed.), 1880. ‘History of a Six Weeks Tour’, (1817); Vol. II, p. 145.

24
.
Claire
, 4 September, p. 36.

25
. ibid.

Chapter 11, Bad Dreams: Kentish Town 1814

1
.
Claire
, p. 43.

2
.
Letters
, I, No. 261, p. 395.

3
.
Journal
, p. 15.

4
.
Claire
, p. 44.

5
.
Letters
, I, No. 260, p. 395.

6
. ibid., No. 261, p. 396.

7
. ibid., No. 262, p. 397.

8
. ibid., No. 263, p. 399.

9
.
Journal
, p. 17.

10
.
Letters
, I, No. 264, pp. 399–400.

11
. ibid., No. 266, p. 405.

12
. ibid., No. 265, pp. 401–3.

13
.
Claire
, p. 48.

14
.
Journal
, p. 17.

15
. This section of the entry is taken directly from the Abinger MS. In the printed version, by the simple effect of miscopied punctuation, Professor Jones’s text alters the total implication of the whole passage, by assigning the strange facial expression to Jane, and the fearful reaction to Shelley, thus: ‘Did you ever read the tragedy of Orra?’ said Shelley. ‘Yes.’ ‘How horrible you look — take your eyes off.’ This effectively reverses the roles. See Chapter 10, Ref. 1.

16
.
Claire
, pp. 48–9.

17
.
Journal
, pp. 18–19.

18
. ibid., p. 20.

19
.
Claire
, p. 52.

20
. ibid., p. 49.

21
.
Poetical Works
, p. 16.

22
.
Claire
, p. 51.

23
.
Journal
, p. 21.

24
. ibid.

25
. ibid., p. 20.

26
.
Claire
, p. 53.

27
.
Letters
, I, No. 273, pp. 412–13.

28
. ibid., No. 280, p. 420.

29
. ibid., No. 270, p. 410.

30
. ibid., No. 271, p. 411.

31
.
Journal
, p. 24.

32
.
Letters
, I, No. 270, p. 410.