The Monsters

by Dorothy Hoobler

  245 “I am afraid that”: ibid, IX, 123.

  245 “Whether the convent”: CC, I, n166.

  245 “I send you”: LPBS, II, 308.

  245 reviews of Don Juan: Trueblood, 30-32.

  246 “Saturday August 4th”: JCC, 245.

  246 “which you only can”: LPBS, II, 319.

  246 “ever been undisturbed”: LMWS, I, 207.

  246 “I write nothing”: LPBS, II, 331.

  247 “not much like”: ibid., II, 334-35.

  247 “Her light & airy”: ibid.

  247 “Before I went away”: ibid.

  247 “knows certain orazioni”: ibid.

  248 “a very pretty”: ibid., II, 363.

  248 “It was said that”: Tomalin, Shelley, 103.

  248 “My Dear Papa”: BLJ, VIII, 226.

  249 “sincere enough but”: ibid.

  249 “Just before Empoli”: JCC, 253.

  249 reviews of Don Juan: Trueblood, 37, 42.

  249 “My dear Friend”: CC, I, 170.

  250 “L. B. would use”: LPBS, II, 398.

  250 “a shrug of impatience”: Marchand, III, 975.

  250 “I am truly uneasy”: CC, I, 171.

  250 “If there is any”: Marchand, III, 992.

  250 “extraordinary qualities”: ibid.

  251 “A mortal paleness”: ibid., 993.

  251 “felt the loss”: MacCarthy, 419.

  251 “The blow was stunning”: BLJ, IX, 147-48.

  252 “I tried the whole”: CC, I, 199.

  252 “I will not describe”: LPBS, II, 415.

  252 “I wish I had never”: Grosskurth, 402.

  253 memorial tablet: ibid., 404.

  253 “the present doormat”: Marchand, III, n1001.

  253 “the epitome or miniature”: MacCarthy, 420.

  253 “While she lived”: Marchand, III, 994.

  Chapter12: The Hateful House

  254 “That time is dead”: PWPBS, 546.

  255 “It seems as if”: LPBS, II, 211.

  255 “A bad wife”: JCC, 123.

  255 “Heigh-ho, the Clare”: JCC, 153.

  255 “A better day”: JMWS, 320.

  255 “Claire is yet”: LPBS, II, 218.

  256 “disturb her quiet”: ibid., 228.

  256 “I should be very glad”: ibid., 267.

  256 “It was nearly seven”: JMWS, n337-38.

  257 “He is a great loss”: LPBS, II, 297.

  257 “The poor people”: White, II, 243.

  257 “where she sees”: LMWS, I, 165.

  257 “It is grievous to see”: ibid., 172.

  258 “He was inconstant”: Hodgart, 91.

  258 “Here are we then”: LPBS, II, 448.

  258 “an idealized history”: ibid., 434.

  258 “I never thought”: PWPBS, 413.

  258 “O Comet beautiful”: ibid., 419.

  258 “And all my being”: ibid., 418.

  259 “I make its author”: LPBS, II, 263.

  259 “died at Florence”: ibid., n263.

  259 “There are other verses”: Norman, 144.

  259 “an extremely pretty”: LPBS, II, 256-57.

  259 “Jane is certainly”: LMWS, I, 180.

  260 “Our ducking last night”: LPBS, II, 286.

  260 “was so full of Ghosts”: BLJ, VIII, 74.

  260 “they lock them up”: Lovell, Medwin’s Conversations, 73.

  261 “six feet high”: LMWS, I, 218.

  261 “the personification of my”: Trueblood, 114.

  261 “He tells strange stories”: JMWS, 391.

  261-62 “She brought us back”: Trelawny, 172-73.

  262 “We talked and laughed”: ibid., 197.

  262 “Poor Mary!”: ibid., 196.

  262 “Thus on that night”: JMWS, n390.

  262 “Let me in my”: ibid., 399-400.

  263 “I commit them”: LPBS, II, 437.

  263 “The sea came up”: PWPBS, 676.

  263 “The gales and squalls”: ibid., 677.

  264 “Our near neighbors”: ibid.

  264 “I have lived too long”: Minta, 203.

  264 “I despair of rivalling”: LPBS, II, 323-24.

  264 “I always find the bottom”: Trelawny, 190.

  264 “Shelley was looking careworn”: Gronow, 124.

  265 “Less oft is peace”: Norman, 94.

  265 “languor and hysterical affections”: LPBS, II, 427.

  265 “No words can tell”: LMWS, I, 244.

  265 “I had no fear”: JMWS, 562.

  265 “I only feel the want”: LPBS, II, 435.

  266 “There it is again . . . lively imagination”: Jones, Gisborne and Williams, 147.

  266 “How long do you mean”: LMWS, 245.

  266 “Shelley had often”: ibid.

  266 “walk into a little wood”: Moore, II, 388.

  267 “They could hardly walk”: LMWS, I, 245.

  267 “be a comfort to me”: LPBS, II, 433.

  267 “Whether [my] life had been”: PWPBS, 515.

  267 “Then, what is life”: ibid., 520.

  268 “I have not a moments”: LPBS, II, 444.

  268 “I fear you are solitary”: ibid., 445.

  268-69 “for they say . . . going into convulsions”: LMWS, I, 247.

  269 “I had risen”: ibid.

  269 “I never can forget”: Lovell, Lady Blessington’s, 53.

  270 “I went up the stairs”: Trelawny, 218.

  270 “Are we to resemble that”: MacCarthy, 429.

  270 “a dark and ghastly . . . soaring over us”: Trelawny, 223.

  271 “more wine”: ibid., 223-224.

  271 “We sang, we laughed”: Hunt, II, 102.

  271 “We have been burning”: BLJ, IX, 197.

  271 “I called him back”: LMWS, I, 246.

  272 “There is thus another”: BLJ, IX, 190.

  272 “Those who know”: Norman, 15.

  272 Other publications: White, Hearth, 330-31.

  272 “Mr. Byshe [sic] Shelley”: ibid., 325.

  272 “Mr. Shelley is unfortunately”: ibid., 329.

  272 “Shelley the great Atheist”: Norman, 22.

  272 “To lose an eldest son”: ibid., 19.

  272 “That you should be so overcome”: ibid., 20.

  273 “All that I expressed”: ibid., 20-21.

  273 “He was the most gentle”: Lovell, Lady Blessington’s, 52-53.

  274 “And so here I am”: LMWS, I, 252.

  274 “Drive my dead thoughts”: PWPBS, 579.

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  275 “Now fierce remorse”: JMWS, 491.

  276 “What a scene”: ibid., 435.

  277 “But [except] for my Child”: ibid., 428.

  277 “romantic beyond romance”: Williams, John, 94.

  277 “Oh my beloved Shelley”: JMWS, 429-30.

  277 “No one seems to understand”: ibid., 440-41.

  277 “No one ever writes”: LMWS, I, 290.

  277 “I would, like a dormouse”: ibid., 288.

  277 “I am a lonely unloved thing”: JMWS, 448.

  278 “I cannot write”: ibid., 462.

  279 “Frankenstein is universally”: ibid., n457.

  280 “To examine the causes”: Florry, 139.

  280 “I was much amused”: LMWS, I, 378.

  280 “attack [on] the Christian faith,” etc.: Florry, 5.

  281 “lost divinity”: JMWS, 443.

  281 “But were it not”: LMWS, I, 254.

  281 “God has still one blessing”: ibid., I, 297.

  281 “queer, unamiable and strange”: Norman, 55.

  281 “The wisest & best”: JMWS, 483.

  282 “I was worth something then”: JMWS, 471, 474.

  282 “His life was spent”: PWPBS, xiii.

  282 “I am convinced”: ibid., xiv.

  283 “Sir T. writhes”: LMWS, I, 444.

  283 “All contemplative existence”: Minta, 180.

  28
3 “Shelley has more poetry”: Lovell, Medwin’s Conversations, 235.

  284 “I do not think”: JMWS, 439-40.

  285 “The isles of Greece”: PLB, 695.

  285 Blackwood’s and Literary Gazette reviews: Trueblood, 49-50.

  285 “Yes! A grassy bed”: Franklin, 179.

  286 “that he considered”: Gamba, 12.

  286 “I was a fool”: Marchand, III, 1123.

  287 “Is the Girl imaginative”: BLJ, XI, 47.

  287 “Both [Byron’s] character”: Minta, 210.

  287 “Be assured, My Lord”: Marchand, III, 1140.

  288 “I especially dread”: Minta, 232.

  289 “enduring the tedious details”: Longford, 200.

  290 “’Tis time this heart”: PLB, 112.

  291 “It [the seizure] was very painful”: BLJ, XI, 113.

  291 “Lyon, thou art an honest”: Longford, 206.

  291 “became pensive . . . fortune-teller in Scotland”: Marchand, III, 1212.

  292 “Come, you are”: ibid., 1219.

  292 “I fancy myself a Jew”: ibid., 1217.

  292 “I want to sleep now”: ibid., 1228.

  292 “the congenital malconformation”: ibid., 1231.

  293 “All Greece . . . grave of a great man”: Minta, 275.

  293 “With great grief”: Franklin, 177.

  293 “This [Byron’s death] then was the”: JMWS, 477-78.

  294 “not a vestige”: Eisler, 471.

  294 “it went to my heart”: LMWS, I, 436-37.

  294 “honor and fame”: MacCarthy, 539.

  295 “Missolonghi groaned”: Marchand, III, 1235-36.

  295 “People take for gospel”: Lovell, Blessington’s Conversations, 220.

  296 “I take a row on the lake”: Lovell, His Very Self, 183-84.

  296 Lady Caroline’s sister: Matthews, XXXII, 258.

  297 “At the age of twenty six”: JMWS, 478-79.

  Chapter14: Mary Alone

  298 “Alone—alone—all”: JMWS, 573.

  298 “The last man”: ibid., 476-77.

  298 “On this very day”: LMWS, I, 438.

  299 “Tears fill my eyes”: JMWS, 485.

  299 “I am under a cloud”: LMWS, I, 438.

  300 “Such writers as Byron”: Norman, 97.

  300 “vow I made”: ibid., 72.

  300 “his Satanic Majesty”: Lovell, Medwin’s, 12.

  300 “a source of great pain”: LMWS, I, 455.

  301 “very gentle and feminine”: Feldman, 612.

  301 “very agreeable”: JMWS, 501-02.

  301 “seems to have known”: Feldman, 613.

  301 “The great charm of the work”: LMWS, II, 101-02.

  302 “the hope and consolation”: ibid, I, 495.

  302 “Loveliest Janey”: ibid., I, 556.

  302 “My friend has proved false”: JMWS, 502-03.

  302 “I need companionship”: ibid., 498.

  303 “Though I was conscious”: LMWS, II, 25-26.

  303 “emphatically a man”: TLM, 35.

  303 “his sensibility and courtesy”: ibid., 20.

  303 “You know me”: LMWS, II, 72.

  304 “Shelley’s life so far”: ibid, II, 194.

  304 “What a folly is it”: JMWS, 489.

  304 “I stick to Frankenstein”: CC, II, 341.

  305 “If you would but know”: ibid., 342.

  306 “in this world”: LMWS, I, 379.

  306 “And now, once again”: F1831, 23.

  306 “While I followed”: ibid., 45.

  307 “Even now, as I commence”: ibid., 38.

  307 “Destiny was too potent”: ibid., 46.

  307 “The power of Destiny”: LMWS, I, 572.

  307 “a deformed and abortive creation”: F1831, 46.

  308 “He came to the university”: ibid., 67.

  308 “I lived principally in the country”: ibid., 20.

  308 “Teach him to think for himself?”: Mellor, 211.

  309 “In person he is”: LMWS, II, 209.

  309 “One day I said to him”: ibid.

  309 “When I mentioned Tennyson’s”: Norman, 220.

  310 “Everything under the sun”: Grylls, William Godwin, 240.

  310 “In weighing well”: Norman, 30.

  310 “most people felt of Mr. Godwin”: De Quincey, III, 25.

  310 “O my God”: JMWS, 548-49.

  311 “The great work of life”: JMWS, 559.

  311 “It was a frightful”: Walling, 135.

  311 “I almost think”: JMWS, 559.

  312 “In the first place”: JMWS, 553-54.

  312 “His reading was not”: PWPBS, 836-37.

  313 “the beautiful and ineffectual angel”: Bann, 37.

  313 “The far Alps were hid”: Shelley, Rambles, 148.

  314 “Preserve always a habit”: JMWS, 573.

  315 “I had been resting”: Rolleston, 27-28.

  317 “Goodnight—I will go look”: LMWS, I, 261.

  317 “It is not”: Sunstein, 384.

  317 “Were the fairest Paradise”: CC, II, 327.

  318 “you were a mere girl”: ibid.

  318 “If I was in Italy”: Moore, Doris, 446.

  318 “She [Mary] has compromised”: Grylls, Claire Clairmont, 254-55.

  319 “Claire always harps”: LMWS, II, 271.

  319 “Don’t go, dear”: Rolleston, 41.

  319 “a slender and pallid”: Norman, 239.

  320 “I would willingly think”: Gittings and Manton, vii.

  320 “She passed her life”: ibid., 245.

  320 “lovely old lady”: Graham, 754.

  320 “I think Shelley would have”: ibid., 755.

  320 “With all my heart and soul”: ibid., 767.

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