MS dines with, 1;
put in charge of PBS’S finances during absence in Italy, 1;
writes to PBS in Italy, 1;
PBS writes to from Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on river trip with PBS, 1;
MS requests combs from, 1;
as executor of PBS’S will, 1;
sends MS’S desk and papers to Italy, 1;
sends relics to MS, 1;
relations with MS in London, 1;
on MS’S authorship of The Last Man, 1;
recommends school for Percy, 1;
writes to young Percy’s tailor on MS’S behalf, 1;
MS asks to find work for Hogg, 1;
criticizes MS’S edition of PBS’S works, 1;
bequest from PBS, 1;
rebukes MS for buying letters from Major Byron, 1;
on Hogg’s biography of PBS, 1;
criticizes Shelley Memorials, 1;
death, 1, 2;
believed by young Percy to be lover of Harriet Shelley, 1;
Headlong Hall, 1;
Melincourt, 1, 2;
The Misfortunes of Elphin, 1;
Nightmare Abbey, 1;
‘Rhododaphne’, 1
Peake, Richard Brinsley: Presumption; or, The Bride of the Isles (adaptation of Frankenstein ), 1, 2n, 3
Pearson, Henry Hugo, 1
Peel, Sir Robert, 1
Penny Cyclopaedia, 1n
Peterloo massacre (Manchester 1819), 1
Petrarch, 1, 2
Pettman (Petman), Miss (Margate schoolmistress), 1, 2, 3n
phrenology, 1 & n
Pickersgill, Henry William, 1
Pictet, M. (of Switzerland), 1
Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Pius VII, Pope, 1
Place, Francis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Plantis, Louise du, 1
Plantis, Mme Merveilleux du, 1
Plato: Symposium, 1, 2, 3
Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, The, 1
Poignand, Dr, 1
Polidori, John: suicide, 1, 2; diary of travels with Byron, 1, 2;
hears Lawrence’s lectures, 1;
and writing of ghost stories in Switzerland, 1;
in Montenvers with Byron, 1;
on abandoned children in Italy, 1;
believes Sgricci a charlatan, 1;
in Geneva with MS, 1;
The Vampyre, 1;
dramatized, 1;
Ximenes (play), 1
Polygon, the, Somers Town (London), 1, 2, 3, 4
Pope, Alexander: grotto, 1
Portman Square, London, 1
Poschi, Villa, 1, 2, 3, 4
Poussin, Nicolas: Winter (painting), 1
Priestley, Joseph, 1, 2
Primrose Street, London, 1
Procter, Adeline (née Skepper), 1
Procter, Bryan Waller (‘Barry Cornwall’), 1
Procter, Nicholas, 1
Pugnano, 1
Punch, 1
Putney, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Quarterly Review 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Racine, Jean, 1
Ramsgate, 1, 2n
Ratcliffe, Jeremiah, 1
Ravenna, 1, 2
Read (Godwin’s Skinner Street landlord), 1n
Récamier, Juliette Bernard, 1, 2
Redding, Cyrus, 1, 2, 3, 4
Reform Bill (1832), 1& n, 2, 3
Reni, Guido, 1
Rennie, Eliza, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rennie, John, 1
Reveley, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Reveley, Maria see Gisborne, Maria
revolutions of 1848, 1
Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, 1, 2, 3
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1
Rhine, river, 1
Richmond: MS in, 1
Rio, Alexis, 1
Ritchie, Anne, Lady (née Thackeray), 1
Roberts, Daniel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6
Robinson family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Robinson, Charles, 1
Robinson, Henry Crabb: visits Godwin, 1; on Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;
on Byron’s attendance at Coleridge lectures, 1n;
on PBS’S denying paternity of Harriet’s child, 1;
seeks help for Godwin, 1;
on MS’S appearance and manner, 1;
praises Procter, 1;
MS writes to for Godwin correspondence, 1;
criticizes young Percy, 1
Robinson, Isabel see Douglas, Isabel
Robinson, Joshua, 1, 2, 3
Robinson, Julia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Robinson, Julian, 1, 2, 3
Robinson, Mary (‘Perdita’), 1
Robinson, Rosetta (‘Rosa’) see Beauclerk, Rosetta
Rochefoucauld, François de la see La Rochefoucauld, François de
Rodney (Dundee ship), 1
Rogers, Samuel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Rogers, Thomas, 1
Roland, Marie-Jeanne (‘Manon’), 1, 2
Romano, Carlo, 1
Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rosa, Salvator, 1, 2
Roscoe, C. (publisher), 1
Roscoe, William, 1, 2
Rose, Polly, 1
Ross, Sir James Clark, 1
Rossetti, Gabriele, 1, 2
Rossetti, Lucy Madox, 1
Rossetti, William Michael, 1, 2, 3
Rossini, Gioachino Antonio: The Barber of Seville, 1
Rothwell, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1; Confessions, 1;
Emile, 1, 2;
La Nouvelle Héloïse, 1, 2
Royal Literary Fund, 1, 2
Ruffini family, 1
Ruskin, John: Modern Painters, 1
St Aubyn, Sir John, 1, 2n, 3
St Croix, Marianne de, 1
St John, Charles (Jane Shelley’s ward; ‘Carlo’), 1, 2
St John, Charles Robert St John, 1, 2
St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, 1 & n, 2
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 1
Salt Hill, Buckinghamshire, 1
Sand, George, 1
Sandeman, Robert (and Sandemanians), 1
Sandgate, Kent, 1
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1
science: advances in, 1
Scotland, 1, 2
Scott, Sir Walter, 1, 2; The Antiquary, 1;
Ivanhoe, 1;
Rob Roy, 1, 2
Severn, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1
Sgricci, Tommaso, 1, 2
Shacklewell Green, east London, 1, 2, 3, 4
Shakespeare, William: Coleridge lectures on, 1, 2; King Lear, 1;
Othello, 1;
The Tempest, 1, 2;
The Winter’s Tale, 1, 2n, 3
Shaw, George Bernard, 1
Shelley House, London, 1
Shelley, Bessy Florence (Sir Percy’s adopted daughter), 1
Shelley, Sir Bysshe, 1n, 2; death and will, 1, 2n, 3
Shelley, Charles Bysshe (Harriet & PBS’S son): birth, 1; and mother’s death, 1;
PBS seeks custody of, 1, 2;
guardianship settled, 1n, 2, 3;
treated as Shelley heir, 1n;
death, 1
Shelley, Clara Everina (MS & PBS’S daughter): birth, 1; baptized, 1 & n;
illness and death in Italy, 1, 2, 3;
MS seeks grave, 1
Shelley, Elena Adelaide (PBS’S ‘Naples charge’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Shelley, Elizabeth, Lady (née Pilfold; PBS’S mother), 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7;
death, 1
Shelley, Elizabeth (PBS’S sister), 1
Shelley, Frances, 1
Shelley, Harriet (née Westbrook; PBS’S first wife): praises Mary Jane Godwin, 1; elopes with PBS, 1 & n, 2, 3;
in Lynmouth, 1;
praises Godwin, 1;
qualities and character, 1;
visits Godwin, 1;
birth of daughter Ianthe, 1;
marriage relations, 1, 2;
&n
bsp; second marriage to PBS, 1;
and PBS’S interest in MS, 1, 2;
blames MS for seducing PBS, 1;
PBS tells of love for ms, 1;
resists PBS’S involvement with MS, 1;
Godwin praises in letter to PBS, 1;
letter to MS pleading for return of PBS, 1;
accuses Godwin of selling children to PBS, 1;
and PBS’S flight with MS, 1, 2;
PBS invites to Switzerland, 1, 2;
pregnancy and birth of son Charles, 1, 2;
PBS borrows from, 1;
and PBS’S return from France, 1;
Hogg makes advances to, 1, 2;
receives allowance, 1;
supposedly spreads scandal about MS, 1;
suicide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Godwin spreads posthumous scandal about, 1;
MS dreams of after drowning, 1;
in MS’S revised account of marriage, 1;
PBS’S dedicatory verses to in Queen Mab, 1;
Godwin reports infidelity to PBS, 1;
denigrated by Hogg in biography of PBS, 1;
accused of drink problem, 1;
in posthumous accounts of PBS and family, 1, 2;
young Percy’s view of, 1
Shelley, Hellen (PBS’S sister), 1, 2, 3
Shelley, Ianthe (PBS and Harriet’s daughter) see Esdaile, Ianthe
Shelley, Jane, Lady (earlier St John; née Gibson; MS’S daughter-in-law): on Newton family, 1n; on PBS’S love-making with MS, 1;
believes Godwin’s letter slandering Harriet Shelley, 1;
marriage to Percy, 1, 2;
relations with MS, 1, 2, 3;
background, 1;
ill health, 1, 2, 3, 4;
character, 1;
childlessness, 1, 2;
dislikes Claire, 1;
Claire accuses, 1;
romantic view of PBS and marriage with MS, 1, 2;
travels 1;
abroad, 1;
at MS’S death, 1;
moves to Boscombe, 1;
eulogizes MS, 1, 2;
exhumes and reburies MS’S parents, 1;
posthumous tributes to MS, 1;
theatricals, 1, 2;
proposes Hogg write biography of PBS, 1;
guides biographical accounts of PBS and MS, 1, 2, 3;
pilgrimages to Italy, 1;
letter from Stevenson, 1;
wishes to banish Trekwny’s portrait, 1;
manipulation of letters, 1;
death, 1;
Shelley and Mary (ed.), 1;
The Shelley Memorials (with Richard Garnett), 1
Shelley, John (of Michelgrove; d.1526), 1
Shelley, Sir John (Sir Bysshe’s brother), 1n, 2
Shelley, Mary (née Godwin): and galvanism, 1, 2; birth, 1;
babyhood, 1;
and mother’s death, 1, 2, 3;
father’s love for, 1;
relations with father, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
childhood and upbringing, 1, 2, 3, 4;
education and reading, 1, 2, 3;
temper, 1n, 2;
three-year absence and silence, 1;
drawing, 1, 2, 3;
resents stepmother (Mary Jane), 1, 2, 3;
juvenile writing, 1, 2;
supposed authorship of Juvenile Library publications, 1;
moves from Somers Town to Skinner Street, 1, 2, 3;
hears Coleridge read ‘The Ancient Mariner’, 1, 2;
Aaron Burr on, 1;
eczema, 1;
poor health as adolescent, 1, 2& n, 3, 4, 5;
sent to Ramsgate, 1;
social life and amusements in London, 1;
unhappiness at home, 1;
and PBS’S letters to Godwin, 1;
stays with Baxters in Scotland, 1, 2, 3;
temporary return home from Dundee, 1;
on role of women, 1;
Booth’s supposed matrimonial interest in, 1;
appearance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
leaves Scotland for London (1814), 1, 2;
first recorded meeting with PBS, 1;
PBS’S interest in, 1;
as PBS’S lover, 1, 2;
flees to France with PBS, 1;
pregnancy, 1;
in France, 1;
loses box of manuscripts and letters in Paris, 1;
in Switzerland, 1;
on Rhine, 1;
returns to England, 1;
declares love for PBS, 1;
excluded by Godwins on return from Continent, 1, 2, 3;
pregnancy, birth and death of daughter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
ostracized on return from elopement, 1, 2;
relations with Jane Clairmont, 1;
letters to PBS in hiding from creditors, 1;
irritability, 1;
attitude to Hogg, 1, 2, 3;
in PBS’S proposed alternative commune, 1;
keeps journal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
second pregnancy, 1, 2;
increasing hostility to Claire Clairmont, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
requests PBS’S return, 1;
visits Torquay with PBS, 1;
fears abandonment by PBS, 1;
at Windsor (Bishopsgate) with PBS, 1, 2;
attitude to slavery and Africans, 1, 2;
learns Latin, 1, 2;
on PBS’S Alastor, 1;
and birth of son William, 1, 2n;
leaves for Geneva with PBS, 1, 2;
meets Byron in London, 1;
gives recollections for Moore’s Life of Lord Byron, 1;
life in Switzerland with PBS and Byron, 1;
Polidori falls for, 1;
travels in Alps, 1;
interest in spontaneous generation, 1;
attitude to Claire Clairmont’s child by Byron, 1, 2;
devotion to Byron, 1;
letter to PBS requesting garden and Claire’s absence, 1;
stays in Bath with Claire on return from Switzerland, 1;
drawing lessons, 1, 2;
and Fanny Imlay’s death, 1;
and writing of Frankenstein, 1;
and PBS’S financial aid for Leigh Hunt, 1;
marriage to PBS, 1;
reaction to Harriet Shelley’s death, 1, 2, 3, 4;
stays with Leigh Hunts, 1, 2;
third pregnancy, 1, 2, 3;
letter to Hunts on friendship, 1;
and son William’s upbringing, 1, 2;
passion for Mozart, 1;
lives in Albion House, Marlow, 1, 2, 3;
earnestness, 1;
PBS dedicates ‘Laon and Cythna’ to, 1;
exhaustion and depression after Clara’s birth, 1;
unhappiness at PBS’S absence, 1;
financial difficulties, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
letters lost, 1n;
leaves England for Italy (1818), 1;
early impressions of Italy, 1, 2;
concern for care of Allegra Byron in Italy, 1;
in Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
in Bagni di Lucca, 1;
horse-riding, 1;
copies out PBS’S writings, 1;
PBS’S love for, 1;
PBS summons to Venice, 1, 2;
attachment to father, 1;
translates Alfieri’s Mirra, 1;
travels in Italy, 1;
and Elena Adelaide Shelley in Naples, 1, 2, 3;
writes to Byron vindicating Claire Clairmont, 1;
lodges in Rome, 1;
pregnancy and birth of fourth child (Percy Florence), 1, 2, 3, 4;
Amelia Curran portrait of, 1, 2;
despair following death of son William, 1, 2;
idea of retribution for Harriet Shelley’s death, 1;
translates Dante with PBS, 1;
claims PBS’S revolutionary feelings faded, 1;
moves to Florence, 1;
studies Greek, 1, 2;
and father’s financial difficulties, 1, 2, 3;
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political convictions, 1, 2, 3;
sexual withdrawal, 1;
stays in Pisa, 1;
PBS intercepts letters from Godwin, 1, 2, 3;
and Claire’s move to Florence, 1;
moves to San Giuliano, 1;
relief at Claire’s absence in Florence, 1, 2;
hurt by PBS’S The Witch of Atlas, 1, 2;
wishes popular success for PBS, 1;
deteriorating marriage relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
rift with Gisbornes, 1;
depicts Italian landscape in fiction, 1;
devotion to son Percy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
dislikes Medwin, 1;
practises hypnotism, 1;
on San Giuliano flood, 1;
writes to Mrs Hoppner refuting tales of Naples baby, 1, 2, 3;
intellectual interests, 1;
friendship with Mavrocordato, 1;
supports Greek cause, 1;
depicts Emilia Viviani, 1;
depicted in PBS’S Epipsychidion, 1, 2;
Edward Williams portrait of, 1;
looks forward to Hunts’ visit to Italy, 1;
improved relations with Claire, 1;
meets Teresa Guiccioli in Pisa, 1;
poor health, 1;
impressed by Trelawny, 1, 2, 3;
Trelawny’s view of, 1;
plans to play Desdemona in Othello, 1;
defends PBS to Dr Nott, 1;
dances with Trelawny at Mrs Beauclerk’s ball, 1;
and Claire’s threatened departure from Italy, 1;
and Claire’s proposals to abduct Allegra from convent, 1;
and PBS’S attentions to Jane Williams, 1;
Williamses’ view of coolness towards PBS, 1;
present at fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;
and Claire’s welfare after death of Allegra, 1;
life at Lerici, 1;
miscarriage and illness, 1;
and PBS’S nightmares, 1;
possible self-portrait, 1;
warns Hunt against visiting Villa Magni, 1;
and PBS’S drowning at sea and cremation, 1;
and Trelawny’s proprietorial adoption of PBS after death, 1;
preserves PBS’S heart as relic, 1, 2;
safeguards PBS’S reputation, 1;
grief after PBS’S death, 1, 2;
believed unfeeling after PBS’S death, 1;
proposed life of PBS, 1, 2n, 3;
financial situation in widowhood, 1;
as Byron’s fair copyist, 1, 2;
Byron’s effect on, 1;
shares house with Hunts in Genoa, 1;
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