Mary Shelley

by Miranda Seymour

  trip to Europe with MS and friends, 1, 2;

  returns to Cambridge for finals, 1;

  hostility to Julia Robinson, 1;

  passes exams, 1;

  Sir Timothy grants allowance of £400 a year on 21st birthday, 1;

  second continental trip with MS (1842), 1;

  learns musical instruments, 1, 2;

  MS’S over-protective feelings for, 1, 2;

  stays with Ianthe, 1;

  helps MS support Gatteschi, 1;

  inherits property and baronetcy from grandfather, 1, 2;

  attends grandfather’s funeral, 1;

  political ambitions, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  presented at court, 1;

  Claire’s faith in, 1;

  buys Chester Square house, 1;

  and mother’s illness, 1;

  and death of Shelley grandmother, 1;

  escorts aunts, 1;

  courtship and marriage, 1, 2;

  travels abroad with wife, 1;

  at MS’S death, 1;

  gives allowance to Isabella Booth, 1;

  moves to Boscombe, 1;

  opens MS’S writing-desk after death, 1;

  writes and stages plays, 1, 2, 3;

  and Hogg’s biography of PBS, 1;

  pilgrimages to Italy, 1;

  approves Kegan Paul’s life of Godwin, 1;

  death and burial, 1, 2;

  interests and activities in later life, 1

  Shelley, Sir Timothy: PBS breaks with, 1, 2; and PBS’S loans, 1;

  threatens to commit PBS to madhouse, 1, 2;

  bans PBS from visit with Jane Clairmont, 1;

  and PBS’S inheritance expectations, 1, 2;

  agrees to financial settlement with PBS, 1, 2, 3;

  PBS anticipates death and succession to, 1;

  declines to support MS after PBS’S death, 1;

  MS hopes for financial support from, 1;

  refuses recognition to MS, 1, 2, 3;

  forbids MS to publish PBS’S works, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  makes repayable allowance to MS, 1;

  meets grandson Percy, 1, 2;

  orders withdrawal of PBS’S Posthumous Poems, 1;

  MS’S expectations of, 1;

  suspends MS’S allowance, 1, 2, 3;

  bans MS’S use of Shelley name, 1;

  and MS’S authorship of The Last Man, 1;

  and MS’S proposed move to country cottage, 1;

  MS writes to, 1;

  calls on Percy at school, 1;

  increases MS’S allowance, 1, 2;

  opposes young Percy’s entry into Eton or public school, 1, 2, 3;

  workers demand support from, 1 & n, 2;

  protects PBS’S reputation, 1;

  and Beauclerks, 1;

  and Paul family, 1;

  Georgiana Paul intercedes with for MS, 1;

  agrees to meet Percy’s school costs at Harrow, 1;

  recovers from illness, 1;

  threatens to separate MS from young Percy, 1;

  and MS’S proposed life of MS, 1;

  neighbours’ opinion of, 1;

  orders MS to dismiss Hogg as lawyer, 1;

  will, 1, 2;

  grants £400 annual allowance to young Percy, 1;

  response to young Percy’s 21st birthday, 1;

  death and funeral, 1, 2;

  neglects country estate, 1;

  and Field Place expenses, 1;

  forbids biography of PBS, 1

  Shelley, William Godwin (MS & PBS’S son): conceived, 1; birth, 1, 2n;

  in Geneva as child, 1;

  in Bath on return from Switzerland, 1;

  childhood, 1, 2;

  health, 1, 2;

  baptized, 1 & n;

  in Rome, 1, 2;

  illness and death in Italy, 1, 2, 3;

  portrait by Amelia Curran, 1;

  as MS’S favourite, 1;

  MS unable to locate grave, 1

  Shelley Society, 1

  Shepherd, Lady Mary, 1

  Sheridan, Charles, 1

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1, 2

  Shevill, Ann, 1

  Shields, Milly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Siddons, Sarah, 1, 2

  Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1

  Sidney, Sir Philip: PBS’S family connection with, 1 & n; Arcadia, 1

  Sierra Leone: uprising, in, 1

  Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 1n, 2, 3, 4n

  Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de: History of the Medieval Italian Republicans, 1, 2

  Skepper, Adeline see Procter, Adeline

  Skinner Street, Snow Hill (London), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Slater, Dr: Kensington Academy, 1, 2, 3

  slaves and slave trade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Smith, Charlotte, 1

  Smith, Dr (MS’S doctor), 1 & n, 2

  Smith, Horace, 1 & n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Smith, Maria (governess), 1, 2, 3

  Smith, N., 1 n

  Smith, Rosalind (Horace’s daughter), 1, 2

  Smith, Dr Thomas Southwood, 1n

  Smollett, Tobias: Roderick Random, 1

  Soane, Sir John, 1

  Somers Town, London, 1, 2, 3

  Somerset Street, London, 1

  Sompting, Sussex, 1, 2, 3

  South Audley Street, 1

  Southey. Robert, 1, 2, 3

  Spa Fields meeting (1816), 1

  Spain: 1820 uprising, 1

  Spark, Muriel, 1, 2

  Spectator (journal), 1, 2

  Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene, 1

  Spurzheim, Johann, 1n

  Stacey, Sophia, 1, 2, 3

  Staël, Anne Louise Germaine Necker,

  baronne de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Stage Manager (magazine), 1

  Stanhope, Elizabeth (Lincoln’s wife), 1, 2

  Stanhope, Leicester (later 5th Earl of Harrington), 1

  Stanhope, Elizabeth (later Countess of Harrington), 1

  Stanhope, Lincoln, 1

  Starke, Marianna, 1, 2

  Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 1

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1, 2

  Stoker, Bram: Dracula, 1n Stuart, James, 2

  Sumner, Charles, 1

  Sunday Times, 1

  Sunderland: cholera epidemic (1831), 1

  Sunstein, Emily, 1n, 2n

  Swansea: Fanny’s suicide in, 1

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1

  Switzerland, 1, 2, 3; see also Geneva

  Sykes, Sir Francis, 1

  Taaffe, John, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tabart, Benjamin, 1

  Table Talker, The (journal), 1n

  Tahiti (Otaheite), 1

  Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon, 1

  Tasso, Torquato, 1

  Tate, Mr (publisher), 1

  Taylor, Emma, 1

  Taylor, Sir Henry, 1

  Tell, William, 1

  Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron, 1, 2; ‘The Poet’, 1

  Thackeray, William Makepeace: Pendennis, 1

  Thelwall, John, 1

  Thomas, Mrs (Trelawnys’ friend), 1

  Tighe, George, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Times, The, 1

  Titian: The Woman Taken in Adultery, 1

  Tomalin, Claire, 1, 2

  Torquay, Devon, 1

  Touchet, John Hastings, 1

  Travis, John, 1n

  Trelawny, Augusta (formerly Goring; née Harvey; Edward’s third wife): friendship with MS, 1; affair and children with Trelawny, 1, 2;

  and MS in Putney, 1;

  and Ratcliffe, 1;

  in Wales with Trelawny, 1;

  MS praises Percy’s bride to, 1;

  MS requests return of Curran portrait from, 1;

  MS writes to on daughter-in-law’s health, 1;

  Trelawny breaks with, 1

  Trelawny, Edgar (son of Edward and Augusta), 1

  Trelawny, Edward John: on MS’S temper, 1n; on MS’S dismissal of Amelia Curran’s portrait, 1;

  reservations about Jane Wil
liams, 1n;

  St Aubyn entertains, 1n;

  background, 1;

  Edward Williams invites to Pisa, 1;

  and PBS’S sailing plans, 1;

  view of MS, 1, 2;

  plans to play Othello, 1;

  visits Beauclerks with MS, 1;

  reports fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;

  accompanies Claire to La Spezia, 1;

  PBS requests prussic acid from, 1 & n;

  helps design boat for PBS, 1;

  and drowning of PBS and companions, 1n, 2;

  arranges cremation and burial of PBS and companions, 1, 2, 3;

  and PBS’S heart, 1, 2;

  relations with Claire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  amours, 1, 2;

  on MS’S unworldliness, 1, 2, 3;

  persuades MS to share house with Hunts, 1;

  accompanies PBS to Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  advises MS to stay in Italy in widowhood, 1;

  censures MS for social ambitions, 1;

  and MS’S feelings after PBS’S death, 1;

  claims to have paid for MS’S fare to England, 1;

  claims intimacy with Byron, 1;

  MS dissuades from writing memoir of Byron, 1, 2, 3;

  believes MS supplies material for Moore’s life of Byron, 1;

  MS asks assistance from in writing life of PBS, 1;

  letters from MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  and MS’S relations with Jane Williams, 1;

  plans to return to England from Greece, 1;

  fails to visit MS in Hastings, 1;

  friendship with Godwin, 1;

  MS tells of Claire’s hostility, 1;

  requests material on PBS for own autobiography, 1;

  radicalism, 1, 2, 3;

  pursues Caroline Beauclerk, 1;

  MS edits naval memoirs, 1;

  MS’S apparent marriage suggestion to, 1;

  joins MS in Sandgate with daughter Julia, 1;

  MS criticizes for emptiness, 1;

  leaves for America, 1;

  returns to England (1835), 1;

  and Caroline Norton, 1, 2;

  arranges Godwin’s funeral, 1;

  advises young Percy on worldly matters, 1, 2;

  MS borrows from, 1;

  praises MS’S appearance, 1;

  affair and children with Augusta Goring, 1, 2;

  breach with MS, 1, 2, 3;

  returns copy of Moxon’s edition of PBS’S works, 1;

  and Claire’s belief in Allegra’s survival, 1n;

  on MS’S domestic control, 1;

  and Gatteschi’s blackmail threat against MS, 1;

  marriage to Augusta, 1;

  in Wales with Augusta, 1;

  accuses MS of gossip, 1;

  keeps Curran portrait of MS, 1& n, 2;

  and Jane Shelley’s proposals for biography of PBS, 1;

  breaks with Augusta, 1;

  Claire gives recollections to, 1;

  W.M. Rossetti meets, 1;

  keeps relics of PBS, 1;

  denigrates MS in Records of Shelley, 1, 2;

  prepares further reminiscences, 1;

  calls young Percy ‘degenerate’, 1;

  death and burial, 1;

  Florence Marshall criticizes, 1;

  and PBS’S posthumous reputation and influence, 1;

  Adventures of a Younger Son, 1;

  Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, 1;

  Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 1, 2n, 3

  Trelawny, Julia (EJT’s daughter), 1

  Trelawny, Zella (EJT’s daughter), 1

  Tremadoc, North Wales, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Trevanion, Charlotte, 1

  Trimmer, Sarah, 1; Story of the Robins, 131

  Trinity College, Cambridge: young Percy attends, 1, 2

  Trollope, Anthony, 1, 2; Barchester Towers‚ 1, 2

  Trollope, Frances, 1, 2; Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1, 2;

  The Vicar of Wrexhill, 1

  Turner, Cornelia (née de Boinville), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1, 2, 3

  Turner, Oswald, 1

  Turner, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Tuthill, George, 1

  Universal Review, 1

  University College, Oxford: accepts statue of PBS, 1

  Uranus (planet): identified and named for George III, 1

  Uri, Lake (Switzerland), 1

  Vaccà Berlinghieri, Andrea, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Vaccà Berlinghieri, Sofia, 1

  Vale of Health, Hampstead, 1

  Varley, John, 1n

  Vavassour, Mrs: and proposed adoption of Allegra, 1

  Velluti, Giovanni-Battista, 1

  Venice, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Versailles, 1, 2

  Vestris, Madame (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), 1

  Vesuvius, Mount, 1, 2

  Vial, Pierre de (Mary Jane Godwin’s father), 1

  Victoria, Queen, 1n, 2

  Villani, Giovanni, 1

  Vincent, Sir Francis, 1

  ‘Vision of Liberty, The’ (anon.), 1

  Vivian, Charles, 1, 2, 3

  Viviani, Teresa (‘Emilia’; latter Biondini), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Volta, Alessandro, 1, 2

  Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 1, 2

  Voysey family, 1

  Voysey, Henry, 1

  Walton, Robert (fictional character in Frankenstein), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Warbeck, Perkin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Washington, George, 1

  Watt, James, 1

  Weber, Carl Maria von: Der Freischütz, 1

  Wedgwood, Josiah, 1

  Wedgwood, Thomas, 1, 2

  Weekes, Horatio, 1, 2

  Weishaupt, Adam, 1

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1, 2n, 3

  West, Mr (drawing teacher), 1

  Westbrook family, 1, 2n, 3

  Westbrook, Eliza, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Westminster Hospital, 1, 2n

  Westminster Review, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6n, 7

  Whale, James, 1

  White Cottage, Putney, 1, 2

  White, Dr Anthony, 1n

  White, William, 1

  Whitman, Walt, 1

  Whitton, William, 1, 2 & n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Wilde, Oscar, 1

  Wilkie, Sir David, 1

  William IV, King, 1, 2n, 3

  Williams, Dina (Jane’s daughter) see Hunt, Rosalind

  Williams, Edward Ellerker: background, 1; friendship with Shelleys, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  in Bagni di San Giuliano, 1, 2;

  portrait of MS, 1;

  MS reads Matilda to, 1;

  in Pisa, 1, 2;

  on PBS’S influence on Byron, 1;

  friendship with Trelawny, 1;

  and Shelleys’ marriage relations, 1;

  misinterpretation in diary, 1;

  and death of Allegra Byron, 1, 2;

  lives with Shelleys at Lerici, 1, 2;

  sails with PBS, 1, 2;

  drowned with PBS and cremated, 1n, 2, 3;

  journal, 1n, 2;

  mother persecutes Jane, 1

  Williams, Edward Medwin, 1, 2

  Williams, Helen Maria, 1, 2

  Williams, Jane (née Cleveland; later Hogg): friendship with Shelleys, 1, 2;

  romance with Edward, 1, 2;

  in Pisa, 1;

  acquaintance with Trelawny, 1;

  at social events, 1;

  PBS gives guitar to, 1, 2;

  lives with Shelleys at Lerici, 1, 2;

  and Allegra Byron’s death, 1;

  and husband’s drowning with PBS, 1;

  MS stays with after drownings, 1;

  receives proceeds of sale of salvaged boat, 1;

  letters from MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  returns to England, 1;

  spreads gossip about MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  advice to MS in widowhood, 1;

  attitude to MS, 1, 2, 3;

  MS deni
grates Byron to, 1;

  PBS’S feelings for, 1, 2, 3;

  begs MS to stay out of England, 1;

  singing, 1;

  inspires poems by PBS, 1;

  relations with Hogg, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  widowhood in London, 1 & n;

  and Novello family, 1;

  moves to Kentish Town, 1, 2;

  MS’S relations with, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  MS denies collaborating with Moore to, 1;

  MS loses to Hogg, 1, 2;

  pregnancy and child by Hogg, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and MS’S plans for Isabel Robinson, 1;

  as Hogg’s common law wife, 1, 2;

  MS learns of treacherous gossip, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  MS borrows from, 1;

  MS admits knowledge of treachery to, 1;

  resumes and maintains friendship with MS, 1;

  and MS’S pleasure in Paris, 1;

  knows of Douglases’ secret, 1;

  excluded from MS’S social circle in London, 1;

  letter from Claire, 1;

  on Claire’s wish to return to England, 1;

  nurses MS during depression, 1;

  on PBS as injured husband, 1;

  sends PBS poems to Fraser’s Magazine, 1;

  and MS’S concern for Jeremiah Ratcliffe, 1;

  and daughter Dina’s illegitimate child, 1;

  flirtation with nephew, 1;

  Claire’s hostility to, 1 & n;

  MS passes Medwin’s letter to, 1;

  in Medwin’s biography of PBS, 1;

  reclaims PBS’S heart for MS, 1;

  W.M. Rossetti meets, 1;

  Jane Shelley blames for MS’S coldness, 1;

  in biographies of PBS and MS, 1

  Williams, John, 1, 2

  Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1

  Windsor, 1, 2, 3, 4; see also Bishopgate

  Winter’s Wreath (annual), 1

  Wolff, Adeline Drummond, Lady (Isabel Robinson/Douglas’s daughter), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond Charles, 1

  Wollstonecraft, Everina (Mary’s sister), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11; death and burial, 1, 2 & n

  Wollstonecraft, Mary (MS’S mother; Mary Godwin): and French Revolution, 1; reputation and influence, 1;

  family lives in Hoxton, 1, 2;

  Godwin meets, 1;

  romantic infatuations and love-affairs, 1;

  background and upbringing, 1, 2;

  as governess-companion in Ireland, 1, 2;

  relations and child (Frances) with Imlay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  attempted drowning, 1;

  travels to Sweden and Norway, 1, 2, 3, 4;