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50
Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, c.2/07/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 344.
51
Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 28/06/1823.
Byron’s Letters and Journals
, X, 205.
52
Miranda Seymour,
Mary Shelley
, p.324.
53
Mary Shelley to Teresa Guiccioli, 2–10/07/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 348.
54
Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 28/06/1823.
Byron’s Letters and Journals
, X, 205.
55
Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, 23/07/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 349.

Chapter Ten: The Present

 
1
Mary Shelley to Leigh and Marianne Hunt, 26/07/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 352.
2
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 03/08/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 359.
3
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 09/09/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 378.
4
Mary Shelley to Leigh and Marianne Hunt, 14/08/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 369.
5
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 09/09/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 378.
6
Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson
,  II, 260.
7
Theatrical Observer
, 9 August 1823. Miranda Seymour suggests that the placards may in fact have been a publicity stunt by the Lyceum management (
Mary Shelley
, p.334).
8
Posthumous Poems of Shelley: Mary Shelley’s Fair Copy Book
, ed. Irving Massey, p.88.
9
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, II, 479.
10
Mary Shelley to Edward Trelawny, 28/07/1824.
MWS Letters
, I, 438.
11
Claire Clairmont to Jane Williams, 11/09/1824 (O.S.).
The Clairmont Correspondence
, p.212. Marion Kingston Stocking notes that ‘since Russia had not yet adopted the Gregorian calendar, the O.S. (Old Style) date was twelve days behind the English’.
12
Claire Clairmont to Jane Williams, 29/04/1825.
The Clairmont Correspondence
, I, 222.
13
Claire Clairmont to Jane Williams, 11/09/1824.
The Clairmont Correspondence
, I, 213.
14
Claire Clairmont to Jane Williams, December 1826.
The Clairmont Correspondence
, I, 240.
15
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, p.403.
16
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, II, 478.
17
Edward Trelawny to Jane Williams, 20/06/1824.
Letters of Edward John Trelawny
, p.83.
18
Leigh Hunt to Bess Kent, July 1824.
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt
, I, 224–5.
19
Leigh Hunt to Bess Kent, 01/09/1824.
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt
, I, 227.
20
Bess Kent to Leigh Hunt, 01/09/1823. Bodleian MSS Shelley adds. d. 5. ff. 47–8.
21
Flora Domestica
, p.xiii.
22
Blackwood’s
 (August 1818), in
The Romantics Reviewed: Part C
, I, 92.
23
Elizabeth Kent to John Clare, 19 September, year unknown.  British Library. MSS Egerton 2250, fol. 244.
24
Recollections of Writers
, pp.37–8.
25
Vincent Novello to Leigh Hunt, 23/06/1824. David Cheney Collection. Box 19, file 28.
26
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, II, 482.
27
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 02–05/10/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 393.
28
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 20/10/1823.
MWS Letters
, I, 396.
29
Mary Novello to Leigh Hunt, 19/10/1823.
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt
, I, 209–10.
30
Leigh Hunt to Vincent and Mary Novello, 09/01/1824.
Recollections of Writers
, p.226.
31
Marianne Hunt to Mary Shelley, 04/10/1823 – 27/11/1823. Bodleian MSS Shelley adds. d. 5 ff. 42–3.
32
Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 16/06/1825.
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt
, I, 246.
33
Leigh Hunt to Bess Kent, 22/27/09/1825.
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt
, I, 246. See
Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters
, pp.175–6 for clarification of the date of this letter.
34
In 1824, when Mary moved to Kentish Town, it was still a country hamlet, linked to London only by the most rudimentary public transport. Its rural qualities were one of its main attractions, for both Mary and the day-trippers for whom it provided a convenient escape from town.
35
Leigh Hunt to John C. Claris, 12/03/1825.
A Life in Letters
, p.165.

Chapter Eleven: The Past

 
1
Charles Brown to Leigh Hunt, 21/12/1836.
The Letters of Charles Brown
, p.341.
2
The Keats Circle
, ed. Hyder Rollins, II, 54.
3
George Keats to C.W. Dilke, 12/04/1828.
Keats Circle
, I, 313–14.
4
Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
, p.vi.
5
Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
, p.23.
6
Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries
, pp.64–5.
7
The Quarterly Review
37 (March, 1828), 403.
8
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt
, II, 91.
9
Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 14/12/1838.
MWS Letters
, II, 305.
10
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1839), I, xii.
11
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1839), III, 163.
12
Susan Wolfson, ‘Editorial Privilege: Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley’s Audiences’, p.42.
13
Trelawny to Claire Clairmont, 19/03/1875.
The Letters of Edward John Trelawny
,  p.247.
14
Silsbee Collection. Box 7, file 3.

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