The Lady and Her Monsters (35 page)

finances of, 128, 183

and
Frankenstein,
198–99, 200, 202

funeral pyre of, 257–59

and ghost story competition, 176–79

and Godwin, 101–2, 119–20, 126, 196

and Harriet (first wife), 115–20, 125–26, 149, 194–95

health problems of, 151, 154, 161, 167, 239

and Hogg, 103–5, 107–8, 114–15, 116, 117, 153

and Jane (Claire), 149–51, 153, 154, 183, 242–44, 245

laudanum taken by, 108–10, 127

and Mary, 28, 100, 110, 112–14, 117, 119, 120–21, 154, 170, 195–96, 247–48, 261

medical interests of, 173

at Oxford, 102–3, 107–8, 114–15, 173

and Paracelsus, 92

Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,
279

Prometheus Unbound,
200

prussic acid sought by, 253–54

reputation of, 148, 170–71, 283

restlessness of, 116–17

and the sea, 248, 250, 252–57

in Switzerland, 168–80

travels with Jane (Claire) and Mary, 121, 125–34, 161, 163–64, 165, 167, 191, 239–42

waking dreams of, 109–10, 174, 249

works revised and published, 266, 279

Shelley, Percy Florence (son), 279–80, 284

Shelley, Sir Timothy, 196

Shelley, William (son of Mary and Percy), 160–61, 248

Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 153, 244–46

Simon Magus, 94, 95, 100

Smith, John, 195

Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, 76

somnambulism, 174, 176, 190

Stoker, Bram,
Dracula,
135, 189

sulfuric acid, 147

superstition, 17, 141

Switzerland:

Byron in, 168–80

Jane (Claire) in, 169–70, 172

Mary and Percy in, 129–30, 167–80

suicide at Devil's Bridge, 91–92

Taylor, John, 126, 127

Taylor, William, 206–7

Temple of Health, London, 66–67

Thames River, 23–24,
23

Tooke, John, 34

torture, 42

Tower of London, 34

transmutation, 137

Trelawny, E. J., 247, 249, 250–60, 264–65

and Percy's death, 256–60, 263

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author,
283

Twain, Mark, “In Defence of Harriet Shelley,” 117, 119

Universal Studios, 285

University of Bologna, 37, 48

“Alma Mater Studiorum,” 7

dissections in, 44, 45

University of Edinburgh Medical School, 173, 219, 231

University of Leyden, 140

University of Padua, 48

University of Pavia, 51, 54

Ure, Andrew, 212–13, 214–16

Ure, Catherine, 213–14

Veratti, Giuseppe, 4

Vesalius, Andreas, 45–48,
45

and body snatching, 46–47

De Humani Corporis Fabrica,
47–48,
47

dissections by, 45, 47, 48

at University of Padua, 48

vitalism, 9

vital powers, 37

Vlad the Impaler, 135–36

volcanic eruption:

global effects of, 147–48, 171

Tambora, 145–48

Volta, Alessandro, 51–55, 105

Volta, Filippo, 53

Volta, Maddalena, 53

voltaic pile, 52, 56

Wakley, Thomas, 235

Wales, William, 14

Walpole, Horace, 68

Walton, Margaret, 17

Warburton, Henry, 233, 234

Watt, Gregory, 35

Watt, James, 35

Wedgwood, Thomas, 25

Westbrook, Eliza, 116, 117, 194

Westbrook, Harriet, 115–20, 125–26, 149, 194–95

West Port Murders, The
(anon.), 217, 231

Whale, James, 285

William, Prince of Orange, 140

Williams, Edward, 247, 249, 251, 254–59

Williams, Jane, 249, 254, 260–61, 284

Williams, Thomas, 233–34,
233
, 276

Wilson, James “Daft Jamie,” 224–25,
225

Wittgenstein, Count August von, 141

Wollstonecraft, Everina, 166

Wollstonecraft, Mary:

and baby's birth, 18–20

death of, 14, 20–21, 26–28

and Fuseli, 22, 27

and Godwin, 21–22, 24–28, 31

gravesite of, 114, 121, 126, 127

and Holcroft, 26

and Imlay, 22–23, 24, 27

influence of, 28, 112, 114, 119, 130, 251, 280

melancholy of, 24, 27, 167

suicide attempted by, 24, 27

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
20, 27, 112

Wordsworth, William, 14

Year Without a Summer, 147

Young, Thomas, 211, 212

Young Frankenstein
(film), 287

Zeus (myth.), 200

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ROSEANNE MONTILLO holds her MFA from Emerson College in Massachusetts, where she continues to teach as a professor of literature.

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The lady and her monsters : a tale of dissections, real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the creation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece / Roseanne Montillo. — 1st ed.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-06-202581-4 1. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851—Friends and associates. 2. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851. Frankenstein. 3. Women and literature—England—History—19th century. I. Title.

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