170 “There is no danger now”: Seymour, Mary Shelley, 538.
170 “her sweet gentle spirit . . .”: Rees, Shelleys Jane Williams, 170.
170 “Disease of the brain . . .”: Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley, 384.
170 “It would have broken . . .”: Gordon, Romantic Outlaws, 542.
171 “a slender and pallid . . .”: William Michael Rossetti, Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti, vol. 2, 353.
Epilogue
173 “O listen . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and Other Writings, vol. 4, 148.
173 “the daughter of Godwin . . .”: “Death of Mrs. Shelley,” Eclectic Magazine, January–April 1851, 569.
177 “the dull yellow eye . . .”: M. W. Shelley, Frankenstein, 35.
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The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Novels
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1818.
Valperga; or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823.
The Last Man. London: Henry Colburn, 1826.
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, a Romance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.
Lodore. London: Richard Bentley, 1835.
Falkner. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837.
Mathilda. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
Travel Books
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. London: T. Hookham, Jr., 1817 (with Percy Bysshe Shelley).
Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843. London: Edward Moxon, 1844.
Children’s Book
Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Biographical Sketches, Short Stories, and Other Brief Works
Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and Other Writings. 4 volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002.
Letters and Journals
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, edited by Betty T. Bennett. 3 volumes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980–1988.
The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Picture Credits
Art and Picture Collection, the New York Public Library. “Man And Women, Brittany.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1913. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1–1389-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99: 30
Author’s collection: 6, 17, 19, 51, 69, 88, 91, 99, 102, 110, 126, 133, 134, 140, 145, 161
The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford: 2795 f. 38, Frontispiece: 168; John Johnson Collection: London Book Trade L: 73; MS Abinger c. 56, fol. 11v: 71; c. 83, fol. 42r: 141; Shelley adds. e. 7, opp. P. 736: 105 (top); e. 18, p. 106: 113; Shelley Relics (d): 101; 4: 105 (bottom); 39: 156
INTERPHOTO/Alamy Stock Photo: 107
Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy/Bridgeman Images: 158
Alan King Engraving/Alamy Stock Photo: 7 (bottom)
Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo: 165
Library of Congress: ii, 32, 34, 43 (bottom), 53, 58, 60, 67, 76, 151, 153
Musea Brugge © www.lukasweb.be—Art in Flanders VZW, photo Hugo Maertens: 130
Music Division, the New York Public Library. “John Howard Payne.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2–7eca-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99: 129
National Library of Medicine: 142
National Portrait Gallery, London: x, 23, 38, 108, 117, 128, 166, 172
The New York Public Library: 4, 9, 63, 66 (top), 94, 103, 122, 124, 136, 175
North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy Stock Photo: 29
Nottingham City Museums and Galleries (Nottingham Castle)/Bridgeman Images: 47
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, the New York Public Library. “The Enchanted Cat.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1811. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7808e5ac-3b7a-82a9-e040-e00a18064805: 14
Photo © DILTZ/Bridgeman Images: 176
Private Collection © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images: 52
Rare Book Division, the New York Public Library. “Chestnut trees, Suning Hill Park, Windsor Forest.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1827. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9c82-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99: 45
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, U.K./Bridgeman Images: 37
© SZ Photo/Bridgeman Images: 55
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 138
Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool/Bridgeman Images: 119
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, the New York Public Library. “Charles Lamb, 1775–1834.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-aa61-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99: 11
Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images: 5, 7 (top), 25, 43 (top), 82, 86, 148
Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Note: Page references in bold indicate photos and their captions.
A
Adeline, 137–39, 149, 172
adultery, 26–27
Adventures of a Younger Son (Trelawny), 144
Alastor (poem), 44–45, 65
Alba (Allegra)
baptism, 74–75
birth, 64
death, 109
name changed to Allegra, 74
reunites with mother, 85
sent to a convent, 106
taken away from Claire, 76–77
Albion House, 68–69, 69, 74
Alps, Swiss, 32
authors, female, 127–28, 150, 155, 174