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MS begs to give up bookselling, 1;
PBS intercepts letters to MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n;
disparages PBS to Gisbornes, 1;
gives title to MS’S Valperga, 1, 2;
takes charge of MS’S Valperga, 1, 2n, 3, 4;
thanks Carlisle, 1;
learns of PBS’S death, 1;
praises Byron’s generosity, 1;
supports MS’S writing ambitions, 1;
advises MS to return to England, 1;
on PBS’S father’s offer to widowed MS, 1;
revises Frankenstein for new edition, 1, 2;
new home (the Strand), 1, 2, 3, 4;
welcomes MS on 1823 return to London, 1, 2;
portrait by Northcote, 1;
sees Presumption with MS, 1;
dissuades MS from writing drama, 1;
helps MS with journalistic writings, 1;
and John Howard Payne, 1, 2;
bankruptcy, 1;
moves to Gower Place and gives up bookselling, 1;
on MS’S The Last Man, 1, 2;
family reunites (1828), 1;
Trelawny’s friendship with, 1;
visits MS in Hasting, 1;
fondness for grandson Percy, 1;
opinion of MS’S writings, 1;
helps MS with literary commissions, 1;
MS attempts to help with writings and publication, 1, 2;
MS entertains at Somerset Street, 1;
portrait by Pickersgill, 1;
and son William’s death, 1;
granted government sinecure and home in New Palace Yard, 1, 2, 3;
regrets Trelawny’s departure for America, 1;
ill health, 1;
and MS’S Lodore, 1;
and MS’S studies of Italian writers, 1;
celebrity in old age, 1;
Hazlitt’s tribute to, 1;
and burning of Parliament, 1;
death and burial, 1, 2;
will, 1, 2;
library sold, 1;
MS plans edition of letters and memoir of, 1, 2;
late religious views, 1;
MS lies about marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, 1;
PBS’S letters to be omitted from Moxon edition of works, 1;
reports Harriet’s infidelity to PBS, 1;
body exhumed and reburied, 1;
Kegan Paul’s life of, 1;
Antonio (earlier ‘Alonzo’), 1;
Cloudesley, 1, 2;
Deloraine, 1, 2;
An Enquiry concerning the Nature of Political Justice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Fables, Ancient and Modern, 1;
Fleetwood– 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
The Genius of Christianity Unveiled, 1;
History of the Commonwealth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
The History of England, 1, 2;
The Junior Class Book (attrib.), 1;
Life of Lady Jane Grey, 1;
Lives of the Necromancers, 1;
The Looking Glass, 1;
Mandeville, 1n, 2, 3;
Memoirs of the author of ‘The Rights of Woman’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
The Pantheon, 1;
The Poetical Class-Book (attrib.), 1;
Sacred Histories, 1;
St Leon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7;
Things as They Are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Godwin, William, jr. (WG’s son): death from cholera, 1n, 2; childhood, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Harriet Shelley on, 1;
runs away from home, 1;
visits Albion House with father, 1;
loses fingertips during engineering training, 1;
Kenney reports badly on, 1;
meets MS on 1823 return to England, 1;
with MS on return from Italy, 1, 2;
qualities and career, 1, 2;
devotion to Payne, 1;
falls out with parents, 1;
relations with Emily Eldred, 1;
marriage, 1;
and MS’S social circle, 1;
Transfusion, or The Orphans of Unwalden, 1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: in Italy, 1; admires Mérimée, 1;
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1, 2
Golden Square, Soho, 1
Goldoni, Carlo, 1
Gordon, Alexander, 1
Gordon Riots (1780), 1
Goring, Augusta see Trelawny, Augusta
Goring, Harry, 1, 2
Gosling, Mary, 1
Gower Place, London, 1
Graham, William Grenville, 1
Greece: rebellion against Turks, 1, 2, 3; Byron goes to aid, 1, 2
Gregory, Augusta, Lady: father’s Oxford scholarship, 1
Gregson, John, 1, 2
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1 & n, 2
Grey, Lady Jane, 1
Grylls, Rosalie Glynn, 1
Guglielmini, Helen, 1n
Guiccioli, Countess Teresa (later Marquise de Boissy): relations with Byron, 1, 2, 3, 4; family expelled from home, 1;
moves to Pisa, 1, 2, 3;
suggests Allegra’s stay in convent, 1;
and fracas with Italian dragoon, 1, 2;
and Byron’s boat, 1;
and PBS’S drowning in Don Juan, 1;
jealousy of MS, 1;
and Byron’s departure for Greece, 1;
MS requests to intercede with Byron, 1;
and Byron’s death, 1, 2;
MS questions on life with Byron, 1;
MS writes to, 1, 2, 3;
declines to co-operate with Moore on life of Byron, 1;
MS reports death of Canning to, 1;
visits England, 1;
remarries, 1;
writes recollections of Byron, 1, 2;
Corinne, 1
Guilford, Frederick North, 5th Earl of, 1
Guitera family, 1
Guitera, Carlo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Guthrie, Dr James, 1n
Hallam, Arthur, 1
Hammond, Marianna, 1
Harbottle, Mrs (landlady), 1
Hardy, Thomas, 1
Hare family, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hare, Anne-Frances (née Paul), 1, 2, 3, 4
Hare, Francis, 1
Hare, John, 1
Hare, Julius, 1; Guesses at Truth (with Augustus Hare), 1
Harrow: MS lives in, 1, 2, 3, 4
Harrow School: Percy attends, 1, 2, 3
Hastings, Sussex, 1, 2
Haydn, Joseph: The Creation, 1
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1
Hays, Mary, 1, 2; Memoirs of Emma Courtney, 1
Hayward, Abraham, 1
Hazlitt, William: background, 1, 2; supports Godwin, 1;
visits Godwin, 1;
contributes grammar to Juvenile Library, 1;
Christy Baxter meets, 1;
admires Napoleon, 1;
divorce, 1;
on MS’S Preface to PBS’S Posthumous Poems, 1;
appearance, 1;
criticizes MS’S The Last Man, 1;
The Spirit of the Age, 1, 2
Hemans, Felicia, 1
Henry, Mary Anne, 1
Herschel, Caroline, 1
Herschel, Sir William, 1
Hervieu, Auguste, 1
Hill, Thomas, 1
Hitchener, Elizabeth, 1
Hobhouse, (Sir) John Cam, 1, 2n, 3, 4
Hogarth, William, 1, 2
Hogg, Jane see Williams, Jane
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson: sees MS in Skinner Street, 1, 2; on Newton family, 1n;
on PBS’S early interest in MS, 1;
disapproves of MS’S elopement, 1;
background, 1;
character and appearance, 1;
legal career, 1, 2;
MS’S attitude to and relations with, 1, 2, 3;
PBS includes in proposed commune, 1, 2;
visits PBS in Nelson Square, 1, 2;
calls on PBS in Hans Town, 1;
and PBS’S health, 1;
stays with PBS at Bishopsgate, Windsor, 1;
/> PBS praises MS’S learning Latin to, 1;
reproaches MS for omitting PBS’S dedication of Queen Mab to Harriet, 1;
visits Albion House, 1;
MS recommends Jane Williams to, 1;
reply to MS asking for legal advice fails to arrive, 1;
and PBS’S interest in Jane Williams, 1;
attachment to Jane Williams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
spends summer in Italy, 1, 2;
MS borrows from, 1;
Jane Williams lives with as common law wife, 1, 2, 3;
silence on MS in recollections of PBS, 1;
writings, 1;
MS attempts to find work for, 1;
provides reminiscences of PBS to Bulwer, 1;
Sir Timothy orders MS to dismiss as lawyer, 1;
and MS’S edition of PBS’S works, 1;
jealousy over Jane’s affair with nephew, 1;
legacy from PBS’S estate, 1, 2;
examines Medwin’s correspondence for legal action, 1;
portrait by Easton, 1n;
undertakes biography of PBS, 1;
PBS accuses of attempted seduction of Harriet, 1;
death, 1;
Florence Marshall criticizes, 1;
Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, 1
Holcroft, Louisa see Badams, Louisa
Holcroft, Thomas: Godwin supports at trial, 1; Thomas Lawrence draws, 1;
unaware of Godwin’s courtship, 1;
Mary Wollstonecraft and, 1;
on portrayal of Mary Wollstonecraft in Godwin’s St Leon, 1;
suggests Godwin give Mary Wollstonecraft’s body up for dissection, 1;
death, 1;
requests Godwin letters for publication, 1;
and Major Byron’s forged letters, 1
Holland, Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron, 1
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron, 1
Holmes, Edward, 1
Holmes, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4; Footsteps, 1;
Shelley: The Pursuit, 1
Hook, Theodore, 1, 2, 3
Hookham, Thomas: friendship with PBS, 1; and PBS’S elopement with MS, 1, 2;
and PBS’S return from elopement, 1;
MS condemns for priggishness, 1;
publishes Hogg, 1;
reports death of Harriet Shelley, 1;
publishes MS’S Journey of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1;
reports lost PBS letters to MS, 1
Hooley, Miss (nursemaid), 1
Hoppner, Isabelle: letter from MS on rumours of Naples baby, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; reports to Byron on rumours of Naples baby, 1, 2, 3, 4;
cares for Allegra, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Elise Foggi denies spreading rumours to, 1, 2;
letters from Byron on Allegra’s upbringing, 1;
MS meets on 1843 trip to Florence, 1;
urges PBS to persuade Claire to end pregnancy, 1
Hoppner, Richard: Allegra Byron put into care of, 1, 2, 3, 4; Mengaldo dines with, 1;
Elise tells of Claire’s giving birth in Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Claire Clairmont uses to communicate with Byron, 1
Hopwood family, 1
Hopwood, Hannah, 1 & n, 2, 3, 4
Horsham: parliamentary seat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Houtetot, Elisabeth Françoise, comtesse d,’ 1
Howard, Mr (in Claire’s coded letter), 1
Howitt, William: Visits to Remarkable Places, 1n
Hoxton Academy: Godwin attends, 1
Hume, David: History of England, 1
Hume, Dr Thomas, 1n
Hunt, Mrs Blaine, 1
Hunt, Henry (Leigh Hunt’s son), 1, 2, 3
Hunt, John, 1, 2 & n, 3, 4, 5
Hunt, Leigh: on MS’S temper, 1n, 2; PBS proposes funding, 1;
PBS supports financially, 1, 2;
promotes PBS’S poetry, 1, 2;
MS stays with, 1, 2;
letter from MS on friendship, 1;
character and qualities, 1;
Dickens portrays as Skimpole, 1;
recognizes young Keats, 1;
supports PBS in custody suit, 1 & n;
takes in Allegra Byron, 1, 2;
visits MS at Albion House, Marlow, 1;
singing, 1;
on MS’S earnestness, 1;
MS criticizes, 1;
letters from MS abroad, 1, 2;
MS dines with, 1;
letters from MS in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
children, 1;
reports Peterloo massacre, 1;
MS describes Lucca to, 1;
and publication of Liberal, 1;
leaves for Italy, 1, 2, 3;
arrives in Italy, 1;
MS warns against coming to Villa Magni, 1;
and PBS’S drowning, 1;
at PBS’S cremation, 1;
attempts to keep PBS’S heart, 1, 2, 3, 4;
shares home with MS at Genoa, 1, 2;
believes MS cold after PBS’S death, 1;
dependence on Byron, 1;
hostility to MS, 1;
praises MS’S Valperga, 1n, 2;
rebukes Jane Williams for rumours of Shelleys’ unhappy marriage, 1;
and Byron’s not honouring debt, 1;
keeps money advanced for MS by Byron, 1;
Byron helps financially, 1;
letters from MS on return to England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
and MS’S success with dramatized Frankenstein, 1;
and MS’S laughter, 1;
borrows from brother John, 1;
MS invites to write preface to PBS’S poems, 1;
helps MS and Jane Williams in London, 1;
publishes account of Shelleys in recollections of Byron, 1 & n;
and MS’S relations with Jane Williams, 1;
on Lord Dillon, 1;
death of son Swinburne, 1;
MS claims to slur over real truth, 1;
MS complains of Lady Shelley to, 1;
and publication of The Beauties of P.B. Shelley, 1;
publishes PBS’S The Masque of Anarchy, 1;
and MS’S writing of Spanish Lives, 1;
and MS’S social life in England, 1;
MS requests copy of PBS’S Queen Mab from, 1, 2;
and MS’S edition of PBS’S works, 1, 2;
and G.H. Lewes’s proposed biography of PBS, 1;
in Chelsea, 1;
MS helps with rent, 1;
bequest from PBS, 1, 2;
and Bulwer’s attack on PBS, 1;
reviews Tennyson, 1;
expectations from letter on Byron’s renunciation of executor’s fee, 1;
fecklessness and impoverishment, 1;
and MS’S ill-health, 1;
receives government pension, 1;
A Legend of Florence, 1;
Lord Byron and his Contemporaries, 1;
The Story of Rimini, 1
Hunt, Marianne: MS stays with, 1, 2; letters from MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
MS requests to have PBS’S washing laundered, 1;
painting and sculpting, 1, 2;
takes in Allegra Byron, 1, 2;
visits MS at Albion House, Marlow, 1;
leaves Marlow without tipping servant, 1;
MS criticizes, 1;
MS dines with, 1;
children, 1;
leaves for Italy, 1, 2, 3;
arrives in Italy, 1;
illness, 1, 2;
shares home with MS at Genoa, 1, 2;
pregnancy in Genoa, 1, 2;
Byron promises to pay for return to England after birth of child, 1;
on Procter’s engagement, 1;
death of son Swinburne, 1;
drinking, 1, 2;
and MS’S anxieties about son Percy, 1;
seeks reward from MS, 1
Hunt, Mary (daughter of Leigh and Marianne), 1, 2, 3
Hunt, Rosalind (née Williams; Jane’s daughter; ‘Dina’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hunt, Swinburne (son of Lei
gh and Marianne): death, 1
Hunt, Thornton Leigh: on MS’S temper, 1n; affection for PBS, 1;
illness, 1;
memories of MS at Albion House, 1;
and Agnes Lewes, 1 & n;
MS attempts to block reviews of Medwin’s biography of PBS, 1;
accounts of MS and PBS, 1
Hunter, John, 1n
Hypsilantis, General Prince, 1
Illuminati, 1 & n
Imlay, Frances (Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter; ‘Fanny’): birth, 1, 2; and Godwin’s courting of mother, 1;
mother’s concern for, 1;
childhood and upbringing, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Godwin’s view of, 1;
learns to read, 1;
adapts to Mary Jane Godwin, 1;
character and temperament, 1, 2, 3;
drawing, 1, 2;
social life in London, 1;
and PBS’S letters to Godwin, 1;
Harriet Shelley on, 1;
on Harriet Shelley’s style, 1;
upholds feminine role, 1;
infatuation with PBS, 1, 2;
summoned home on MS’S flight to France, 1;
and Godwin’s banning of MS on return from elopement, 1, 2;
and death of MS’S baby, 1;
Claire writes to from Lynmouth, 1;
and Godwin’s debts, 1;
copies out Godwin’s reply to PBS, 1;
letter from MS in Switzerland, 1;
disagreements with MS, 1;
MS and PBS give gold watch to, 1;
writes to MS on Godwin’s financial difficulties, 1;
denies mother’s spreading scandal about MS, 1;
not invited to stay with Shelleys, 1;
urges PBS to give financial help to Godwin, 1;
suicide, 1, 2
Imlay, Gilbert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Inchbald, Elizabeth, 1, 2, 3, 4; A Simple Story, 1
Ireland: Great Famine, 1
Irving, Sir Henry, 1
Irving, Washington, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Italy: PBS and MS arrive in, 1; political divisions, 1;
PBS and MS travel in, 1;
abandoned babies and adoptions in, 1;
MS returns to on trip with young Percy, 1;
under Austrian rule, 1, 2;
young Percy and Jane visit, 1;
see also individual towns and cities
Jaffray, Grissell (alleged witch), 1