Mary Shelley

by Miranda Seymour

  James, Henry, 1, 2; The Aspern Papers, 1n

  Jameson, Anna, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Jerdan, William, 1

  Jervis, Sir John, MP, 1

  Jesse, Captain: life of Beau Brummell, 1

  Jewsbury, Geraldine, 1

  Jewsbury, Maria Jane (later Fletcher), 1

  John Bull (newspaper), 1, 2

  Johnes, Mrs (of Herefordshire), 1

  Johnson, Joseph, 1n, 2, 3

  Johnson, Samuel, 1 Jones, Frederick L., 2n

  Jones, Louisa, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Juvenile Library, 1, 2

  Kaisaroff, Natalie, 1

  Karloff, Boris, 1, 2

  Kauffmann, Angelica, 1, 2

  Kean, Edmund, 1, 2

  Keats, John: Leigh Hunt recognizes, 1; Shelleys’ attitude to, 1;

  PBS reads poems to MS, 1;

  visits and dies in Italy, 1;

  PBS writes Adonais in memory of, 1, 2;

  Godwin influences, 1;

  Society formed, 1;

  Hyperion, 1

  Keepsake (annual), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Kelsall, Thomas, 1, 2

  Kemble, Charles, 1

  Kemble, Frances (‘Fanny’), 1, 2, 3

  Kennedy, Benjamin, 1

  Kenney, James, 1, 2n, 3, 4

  Kenney, Mrs James (formerly Holcroft), 1n, 2

  Kent, Elizabeth (Bessy), 1, 2, 3; Flora Domestica, 1

  Kent, Tom, 1

  Kentish Town, London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  King, Margaret see Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady

  Kingsborough, George King, Viscount (later 3rd Earl of Kingston), 1, 2

  Kippis, Andrew, 1

  Kitchiner, Dr William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Knapp, Leonora, 1, 2, 3

  Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 1

  Knight’s Quarterly, 1

  Knox, Alexander: MS travels in Europe with, 1; Gatteschi stays with in England, 1;

  and Gatteschi’s blackmail threats, 1, 2;

  MS gives money to, 1;

  Claire believes MS has affair with, 1, 2;

  coded letter from MS, 1;

  and young Percy’s Chester Square house, 1;

  visits MS in Brighton, 1;

  in Sandgate with MS, 1;

  marriage to Clara Clairmont, 1, 2;

  remarries after Clara’s death, 1

  Knox, Clara (née Clairmont; Charles’s daughter; ‘Clari’), 1, 2

  Lackington and Company (publishers), 1, 2

  Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul du Motier, marquis de, 1, 2, 3

  Lamartine, Alphonse, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lamb, Lady Caroline see Melbourne, Viscountess

  Lamb, Charles: friendship with Godwin, 1, 2; dislikes Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;

  Christy Baxter visits, 1;

  at East India Company, 1;

  reclusiveness, 1;

  literary success, 1;

  seeks help for Godwin, 1;

  visits MS with adopted daughter, 1;

  detests music, 1;

  and Novellos, 1;

  friendship with MS, 1;

  likes Payne, 1;

  death, 1;

  fails to recognize PBS’S genius, 1;

  The Adventures of Ulysses, 1

  Lamb, Emma Isola (Charles’s adopted daughter), 1

  Lamb, Mary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Mrs Leicester’s School, 1;

  Tales from Shakespeare (with Charles Lamb), 1

  Lamb, William see Melbourne, 2nd Viscount

  Lardner, Dionysius, 1 & n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  La Rochefoucauld, François, due de, 1, 2

  La Spezia, 1, 2

  Lawrence, James (‘the Chevalier’), 1, 2, 3

  Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 1, 2, 3

  Lawrence, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Layton House, Putney, 1, 2, 3

  Leader (magazine), 1n, 2

  Leader, Temple, 1, 2, 3

  Lear, Edward, 1

  Lee, Harriet, 1

  Leech, John, 1

  Leigh, Augusta Mary: relations with Byron, 1; and Byron’s affair with Claire Clairmont, 1;

  and Claire’s child by Byron, 1;

  Byron invites to Italy, 1;

  and burning of Byron’s memoirs, 1n;

  and Byron’s supposed illegitimate son, 1

  Lennox, Lady Sussex, 1, 2, 3

  Lennox, Lord Sussex, 1, 2

  Léon, Captain (Napoleon’s illegitimate son), 1

  Leopardi, Giacomo, 1

  Lerici, 1, 2, 3

  Leroux (builder), 1

  Lewes, Agnes, 1

  Lewes, George Henry, 1, 2

  Lewis, Mary Anne (later Disraeli), 1 & n

  Lewis, Matthew (‘Monk’), 1

  Liberal (journal), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lindsay, David see Dods, Mary Diana

  Literary Gazette, 1, 2, 3

  Literary Panorama (magazine), 1

  Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of, 1, 2n

  Livorno, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Locke, John, 1, 2

  London: conditions, 1; MS returns to from Italy (1823), 1;

  rebuilding and development, 1, 2;

  and cholera epidemic, 1n;

  see also individual streets and districts

  London Corresponding Society, 1

  London Magazine, 1, 2, 3

  Longdill, Pynson Wilmot, 1n

  Louis XVI, King of France, 1, 2

  Louis Philippe, King of France, 1, 2, 3

  Lucca, 1, 2

  Lynmouth, Devon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7

  Lynn, William, 1n

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 1n, 2

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1, 2

  Mackintosh, Sir James, 1

  Maclise, Daniel, 1

  Macready, William, 1

  McTavishe, Miss, 1

  Magni, Villa see Lerici

  Maitland, Captain (later Rear-Admiral Sir) Frederick Lewis, 1

  Manners-Sutton, Ellen see Canterbury, Viscountess

  Mansfield, Katherine, 1

  Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1, 2 & n

  Marchmont Street, London, 1

  Margaret Street, London, 1

  Marlow, 1, 2, 3, 4; see also Albion House

  Marshall, Florence, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Marshall, James: friendship with Godwin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and Hannah Godwin, 1;

  cares for Godwin’s children, 1;

  banished by Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;

  and PBS’S suicide threat with MS, 1;

  MS confides in, 1;

  home in Holborn, 1;

  financial difficulties, 1

  Martin, John, 1, 2

  Martineau, Harriet, 1

  Martini, Count, 1, 2

  Masi, Sergeant-Major Stefano (Italian dragoon), 1, 2, 3

  Mason, Catherine Elizabeth Louisa (‘Nerina’), 1

  Mason, Laura (Mrs Mason’s daughter) see Galloni, Anna Laura Georgina

  Mason, Mrs see Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady

  Mathews, Charles, 1

  Matilda, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, 1

  Maturin, Charles, 1

  Mavrocordato, Alexander, Prince, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Maxwell, Colonel, 1

  Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1, 2, 3

  Medmenham Abbey, 1

  Medwin, Pilfold, 1, 2

  Medwin, Thomas: visits Geneva, 1; writes Life of PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  travels to Middle East, 1;

  visits Shelleys at Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;

  character and appearance, 1;

  on PBS’S dress, 1;

  and Pacchiani, 1, 2;

  seeks rich wife in Italy, 1;

  St Aubyn entertains, 1n;

  with Byron in Pisa, 1, 2;

  visits Mrs Beauclerk, 1;

  writes memoir of Byron, 1;

  on MS’S relations with PBS, 1;

  on PBS’S marriage to MS, 1;

  MS commends Mary Dods’s writings to, 1;

  marriage, 1;

  blackmails MS, 1;

  Conversations of Lord Byron, 1, 2, 3


  Melbourne, Caroline Lamb, Viscountess, 1, 2, 3

  Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Mengaldo, Chevalier Angelo, 1, 2

  Mercier family, 1n

  Mercier, Sébastien: L’An 2440, 1

  Meredith, George, 1, 2, 3

  Meredith, Mary Ellen (née Peacock), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Mérimée, Prosper, 1, 2

  Merriweather, Francis, 1

  Messager, Le (newspaper), 1

  Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi), 1

  Metropolitan (magazine), 1

  Metternich-Winneburg, Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von, 1, 2

  Milanie, Mlle (dancer), 1

  Milnes, Richard Monckton (later Baron Houghton), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Milton, John: Paradise Lost, 1; Comus, 1

  Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de, 1

  Missolonghi, 1, 2

  Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1

  Montagu, Basil, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Mont Blanc, 1

  Monthly Censor, 1

  Monthly Chronicle, 1n

  Monthly Magazine, 1

  Monthly Mirror, 1

  Monthly Review, 1, 2, 3

  Monti, Vicenzo, 1

  Montpensier, Duke of, 1n

  Moore, Helen: biography of MS, 1n

  Moore, Thomas: Christy Baxter meets, 1; MS helps with life of Byron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  and authorship of MS’S History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1;

  and Byron’s reluctance to employ Elise Foggi to care for Allegra, 1;

  Byron gives memoirs to, 1;

  resents MS’S suggestions, 1;

  at Joshua Robinson’s evenings, 1;

  advises MS to admit knowledge of Jane Williams’s treachery, 1;

  Claire criticizes account of Byron, 1;

  Trelawny claims MS helps, 1;

  and MS’S meeting with Bulwer, 1n;

  attends parties at MS’S, 1;

  on MS’S social circle, 1;

  Elizabeth Stanhope detests, 1;

  literary earnings, 1;

  seeks access for MS to Holland’s library, 1;

  hears gossip about Caroline Norton, 1;

  singing, 1;

  MS requests copy of PBS’S Queen Mab from, 1;

  on Jeremiah Ratcliffe, 1;

  The Life of Lord Byron, 1, 2, 3n

  More, Hannah, 1; Florio, 1n

  Morgan, Sydney, Lady (Sydney Owenson): on King of Sardinia, 1; travels in Italy, 1, 2;

  on Italian bores, 1;

  success as writer, 1;

  broadmindedness, 1;

  entertaining, 1;

  friendship with MS, 1, 2;

  opposes Austrian and papal subjection of Italy, 1;

  Florence Macarthy, 1n;

  Italy, 1

  Morning Chronicle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Morton, George Douglas, Earl of, 1, 2

  Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady (née King), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Godwin meets, 1;

  Mary Jane writes to on children’s education, 1;

  Godwin writes to, 1;

  Mary Jane Godwin tells of MS’S infatuation with PBS, 1;

  told of MS’S elopement, 1;

  leaves England with Tighe, 1, 2;

  adopts name ‘Mrs Mason’ abroad, 1;

  Mary Jane Godwin writes to, 1, 2, 3;

  prefers Jane Clairmont to MS, 1n, 2;

  in Pisa, 1, 2, 3;

  advises and rallies Shelleys, 1;

  relations with Tighe, 1;

  takes care of Claire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  visits Shelleys in Bagno di San Giuliano, 1;

  recognizes MS in adulthood, 1;

  ill-health, 1;

  PBS asks to rescue Emilia Viviani from convent, 1;

  PBS proposes Allegra stay with, 1;

  and Claire’s threatened departure from Italy, 1;

  intercepts and censors Godwin’s correspondence to MS, 1;

  coldness to MS after death of PBS, 1;

  praises MS’S generosity to Claire, 1;

  advises MS to return to England as widow, 1;

  funds MS’S return fare to England, 1;

  letters from MS in London, 1;

  marries Tighe, 1;

  death, 1;

  as confidante to PBS, 1;

  in Curreli’s Maurice, 1

  Mountcashell, Stephen, 2nd Earl of, 1

  Moxon, Edward: asks Godwin about monument to Mary Wollstonecraft, 1n; and publication of PBS’S poetry, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  visits Godwin, 1;

  prosecuted for blasphemous libel, 1, 2;

  MS writes to, 1, 2;

  trial, 1;

  and MS’S plan to write account of travels, 1;

  and MS’S ill health, 1;

  and Hogg’s biography of PBS, 1

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1; La Clemenza di Tito, 1

  Mulready, William, 1

  Murray, John: Byron introduces Godwin to, 1; commissions Polidori to keep diary, 1;

  turns down Frankenstein, 1;

  seeks help for Godwin, 1;

  and burning of Byron’s memoirs, 1n;

  MS proposes writing for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  correspondence with Teresa Guiccioli, 1;

  payments for novels, 1;

  requests portrait of MS, 1n;

  publishes Byron, 1;

  sends illustrations of Byron works to MS, 1;

  and Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, 1

  Murry, John Middleton, 1

  Mylius, W.F., 1

  Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1

  Nash, John, 1, 2

  Nashoba, Tennessee, 1, 2, 3

  Nathan, Isaac: Hebrew Melodies, 1

  National Gallery, London, 1

  National Magazine and Monthly Critic, 1

  New Harmony, Indiana, 1

  Newburgh, Scotland, 1

  New Monthly Magazine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n

  Newton, Cornelia, 1

  Newton, John Frank, 1, 2

  Newton, John Gilbert, 1, 2

  Newton, Samuel, 1, 2, 3

  Nicholson, William, 1, 2, 3

  Noel, Judith, Lady (formerly Milbanke): death, 1

  Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of, 1, 2

  Norfolk, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of, 1

  Northcote, James, 1, 2

  Norton, Caroline, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother, 1

  Norton, George, 1, 2

  Nott, Dr John, 1

  Novello, Clara, 1

  Novello, Mary Sabilla, 1

  Novello, Vincent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Nugent, Catherine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  October ‘Treason Trials’ (1794), 1, 2

  Ogilvie, William, 1, 2

  Ogilvie, Mrs William (formerly Duchess of Leinster), 1 & n

  Ollier, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  O’Neill, Eliza, 1

  Opera Glass (magazine), 1

  Opie, Amelia (née Alderson), 1, 2, 3n, 4; Adeline Mowbray, 1, 2

  Opie, John, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Orcagna, Andrea: The Triumph of Death (frescoes), 1

  Orkney islands, 1

  Osnaburgh (ship), 1

  Owen, Sir Richard, 1n

  Owen, Robert, 1

  Owen, Robert Dale, 1, 2, 3; Threading My Way, 1

  Oxford: PBS expelled from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6

  Pacchiani, Francesco, 1, 2, 3

  Paddington, 1

  Paganini, Niccolò, 1

  Paine, Thomas: in French Revolution, 1; leaves England for America, 1;

  Hazlitt on, 1;

  advises Mary Wollstonecraft, 1;

  at Johnson’s dinner, 1;

  The Rights of Man, 1, 2n, 3

  Palacio, Jean de: Mary Shelley dans son oeuvre, 1

  Palermo, 1

  Paley, William: Natural Theology, 1

  Paris: surren
ders to Allies (1814), 1; MS and PBS visit, 1;

  MS visits on return to England, 1, 2;

  MS visits (1828), 1;

  MS stays with Douglases in (1828–9), 1;

  MS stays in (1840), 1;

  MS visits Claire in (1843), 1, 2, 3

  Paris, Dr John Ayrton, 1

  Park, Mungo, 1n, 2

  Park Street, Mayfair, 1

  Parker, Elizabeth (‘Suora Ancilla’; ‘Sister Betsy’), 1n, 2n

  Parker, Robert, 1

  Parry-Jones, Miss Corbet, 1

  Pascal, Marguerite, 1

  Pasta, Giuditta, 1, 2

  Patrickson, Procter: suicide, 1

  Paul family, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Paul, C. Kegan, 1, 2, 3

  Paul, Georgiana (née Beauclerk; ‘Gee’), 1, 2& n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; death, 1

  Paul, Sir John, 1, 2

  Paul, Lady, 1, 2

  Payne, John Howard: friendship with William Godwin, jr, 1, 2; attachment to MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  writings, 1;

  and MS’S visit to Windsor, 1;

  provides theatre and opera tickets for MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  in Paris, 1, 2;

  and Badams’ marriage, 1;

  MS praises Frances Wright to, 1;

  debts, 1

  Peacock, Mary Ellen (TLP’s daughter) see Meredith, Mary Ellen

  Peacock, Thomas Love: on Newton family, 1n; on Harriet Shelley’s elegance, 1;

  advises Harriet Shelley on travelling expenses, 1;

  character and qualities, 1;

  maintains relations with MS and PBS after return from elopement, 1, 2;

  plans return to Egham, 1;

  and PBS’S Windsor house, 1, 2;

  visits PBS at Windsor, 1;

  on PBS’S fancies, 1;

  manages PBS’S affairs during absence abroad, 1, 2;

  mocks social conditions, 1;

  Shelleys stay with near Marlow, 1;

  helps PBS find home at Marlow, 1;

  MS’S attitude to, 1, 2, 3;

  supervises renovation of Albion House, Marlow, 1;

  infatuation with Claire, 1;

  questioned about authorship of Frankenstein, 1;

  post with East India Company, 1;