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184  “My life might have”: F1818, 7.

184-85 “I shall commit”: ibid., 8-9.

185  “[My] ambition leads me”: Beaglehole, J. C., 365.

185  “There, Margaret”: F1818, 5-6.

185  “Learn from me”: ibid., 35.

186  A modern feminist critic: Mellor, 274-86.

186  “Frankenstein discovered”: F1818, 179.

187  “eloquence is forcible”: ibid.

187  “Listen to my tale”: ibid., 78.

187  “even power over”: ibid., 178.

187  “The ice”: ibid., 183.

187  “I am a blasted tree”: ibid., 133.

188  “Seek happiness”: ibid., 186.

188  “Yet why do I say”: ibid.

188  “demon . . . voice of”: ibid., 187.

188  “fallen angel”: ibid., 189.

188  “I shall ascend”: ibid., 191.

188  “He sprung from”: ibid.

189  “How very vividly”: JMWS, 172.

190  “igmatic . . . enigmatic . . .” et al.: Anne K. Mellor discusses in detail the changes Percy made to Mary’s manuscript
on pages 58-69 of her insightful book,
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters.

191  “My health has been”: LPBS, I, 428.

192  “I am just now”: LMWS, I, 46.

192  “I am tired”: ibid., 42-43.

192  “Poor little angel!”: CC, I, 110.

192  “I know not”: LMWS, I, 57.

193  “Devilman”: Peacock,
Nightmare Abbey,
211-12.

193  “Mrs. Shelley, tho’”: LPBS, I, 583.

193  “The event on which . . .” et al.: F1818, 3-4.

194  “[
Frankenstein
] is piously dedicated”: Brewer,
Mental Anatomies,
17.

195  “perhaps the foulest toadstool”: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.” In Thomson et al., 393.

195  “Nothing attracts us”: Rieger, “Dr. Polidori,” 462.

195  “It is no slight merit”: Walling, 34.

195  “the most wonderful”: ibid., 23.

195  “a wonderful work”: BLJ, VI, 125.

195  “Mary has just”: CC, I, 111.

196  “Treat a person”: Bloom,
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,
27.

196  “a thin patrician-looking”: Sunstein, 147-48.

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198  “Who telleth”: PWPBS, 524.

198  “We are all”: LPBS, II, 1.

198  “The country is”: JMWS, 197.

198  “we can see”: ibid., 199.

199  “The snows”: ibid., 201.

199  “. . . to inform you”: LPBS, II, 5.

199  “for fear that”: Gittings and Manton, 41-42.

199  “You write as if”: LPBS, II, 10-11.

200  “Shelley has got to Milan”: BLJ, VI, 37.

200  “Remember that I am”: CC, I, 115.

200  “They dress her”: Blunden, 212.

200  “I could never”: JMWS, 67.

201  “Mrs. Gisborne is”: LPBS, II, 114.

201  “we have a small”: LMWS, I, 72.

202  “as beautiful as ever . . . extreme horror”: LPBS, II, 36.

202  “face had become pale”: Minta, 192.

202  “He associates with”: LPBS, II, 58.

202  “So we’ll go no more”: PLB, 101.

203  “He is a person”: PWPBS, 189.

203  “passionately attached”: ibid., 290.

204  “I have done for”: LPBS, II, 37.

204  “not well”: JMWS, 224.

204  “. . . we have arrived”: LMWS, I, 78-79.

205  “This is the Journal”: JMWS, 226.

205  “All this is”: LPBS, II, 40-41.

205  “I have not been without”: ibid., 42.

206  “I sincerely sympathize”: St. Clair, 460-61.

206  “Wilt thou forget”: PWPBS, 553.

207  “not well”: JMWS, 246.

208  “A most tremendous fuss”: ibid., 249.

208  “with sweet laughing”: F1818, 47.

209  “William is very ill”: JMWS, 265.

209  “William is in the greatest”: LMWS, I, 99.

209  “William is dead!”: F1818, 52.

209  “I am going to write”: LMWS, I, 100.

210  “I never know one”: ibid., 101-02.

210  “Yesterday after an illness”: LPBS, II, 97.

210  “My lost William”: PWPBS, 581.

211  “Mourning in thy robe”: ibid., 559.

211  “Ha! Thy frozen pulses”: ibid., 560.

211  “My dearest Mary”: ibid., 582.

212  “We cannot yet come”: LPBS, II, 109.

212  “selfishness and ill humour”: Seymour, 234.

212  “I had thought you”: Mellor, 194.

212  “Your letters”: LPBS, II, 227.

213  “I went to the Egham races”: Walling, 34.

213  “What has been the fate”: LPBS, II, 103.

213  “I begin my journal”: JMWS, 293.

213  “That time is gone for ever”: ibid.

214  “I am sorely afraid”: CC, I, 127.

214  “a few days after my birth”: Shelley, Mary,
Mathilda,
155.

214  “He was a sincere”: ibid., 153.

215  “One idea rushed on”: ibid., 173.

215  “. . . rise from under my blighting”: ibid., 180.

215  “His genius was transcendant”: ibid., 191.

215  “He soon took great interest”: ibid., 195.

215  “Woodville for ever”: ibid.

216  “I am alone”: ibid., 151.

216  “I go from this world”: ibid., 210.

216  “disgusting and detestable”: Jones,
Gisborne,
44.

217  “small but healthy”: LPBS, II, 151.

217  “he is my only one”: LMWS, I, 114.

217  “after the frightful events”: LPBS, II, 227.

218  “O Wild West Wind . . . Spring be far behind?”: PWPBS, 577-79.

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219  “Lord Ruthven had disappeared”: Bleiler, 283.

219  “If there is in this world”: Bunson, xi.

220  “But first, on earth”: PLB, 262-63.

221  “a man of considerable”: Bleiler, 287.

221  “his countenance”: ibid., 291.

222  “A considerable change”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
100.

222  “sign of reconciliation”: ibid., 102.

222  “I had no use for”: BLJ, V, 122.

222  “We have parted”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
102.

223  “your letter produced”: ibid., 108.

223  “pimp”: Longford, 112.

223  “There were fifteen”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
122.

224  “The Doctor Polidori”: BLJ, XI, 164.

224  “It is, however”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
144.

224-25 “Instead of making out”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
107.

225  “
delicat
e declension”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
147.

225  “Dear Doctor—I have read your play”: BLJ, V, 258.

227  “[Here is] a copy of a thing”: Bleiler, xxxvi.

227  “As the person referred to”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
181.

228  “If the book is clever”: BLJ, VI, 119.

229  “deadly hue . . . dead grey eye”: Bleiler, 265.

229  “one whose strength”: ibid., 273.

229  “conceal all you know”: ibid., 276.

229  “Remember your oath!”: ibid., 279.

230  “Lord Ruthven had disappeared”: ibid., 283.

231  “death, he remembered”: ibid., 280.

231  “The tale here presented”: ibid., xxxvii.

233  “In every town”: ibid.,
Vampyre,
268.

234  “departed this Life”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
237.

234  “I have been left”: ibid., 238.

234  “I was convinced”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
104.

235  “I then said”: MacDonald,
Polidori,
241.

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236  “I am ashes”: PLB, 112.

237  “Which ‘piece’”: BLJ, VI, 92.

237  “She was not”: MacCarthy, 360.

237  “My first wish”: CC, I, 127.

238  “I wish to see”: BLJ, VI, 213.

238  “very droll”: BLJ, VI, 223.

238  “I was rather disappointed”: Gronow, 212.

239  “celestial apparition”: Marchand, II, 775.

239  “already the subject”: ibid., 775.

239  “I was strong enough”: ibid., 777.

239  “I am in love”: BLJ, VI, 108.

240  “I am drilling very hard”: BLJ, VII, 28.

241  “which shines among”: ibid., VII, 80.

241  “I so totally disapprove”: ibid.

241  “A letter from Mad[ame]”: JCC, 145.

242  “she shall be taught”: CC, I, 144-45.

242  “The woman is”: BLJ, VII, 151.

242  “I must decline”: ibid., VII, 162.

242  “Clare [
sic
] writes me”: ibid, VII, 174-75.

243  “Each time she came”: CC, I, n130.

244  “to become a good”: Gittings and Manton, 58.

244  “the state of ignorance”: CC, I, 163.

244  “The moral part”: CC, I, 165.

245  “I am no enemy”: BLJ, IX, 119.

245  “I am afraid that”: ibid, IX, 123.

245  “Whether the convent”: CC, I, n166.

245  “I send you”: LPBS, II, 308.

245  reviews of
Don Juan
: Trueblood, 30-32.

246  “Saturday August 4th”: JCC, 245.

246  “which you only can”: LPBS, II, 319.

246  “ever been undisturbed”: LMWS, I, 207.

246  “I write nothing”: LPBS, II, 331.

247  “not much like”: ibid., II, 334-35.

247  “Her light & airy”: ibid.

247  “Before I went away”: ibid.

247  “knows certain orazioni”: ibid.

248  “a very pretty”: ibid., II, 363.

248  “It was said that”: Tomalin,
Shelley,
103.

248  “My Dear Papa”: BLJ, VIII, 226.

249  “sincere enough but”: ibid.

249  “Just before Empoli”: JCC, 253.

249  reviews of
Don Juan
: Trueblood, 37, 42.

249  “My dear Friend”: CC, I, 170.

250  “L. B. would use”: LPBS, II, 398.

250  “a shrug of impatience”: Marchand, III, 975.

250  “I am truly uneasy”: CC, I, 171.

250  “If there is any”: Marchand, III, 992.

250  “extraordinary qualities”: ibid.

251  “A mortal paleness”: ibid., 993.

251  “felt the loss”: MacCarthy, 419.

251  “The blow was stunning”: BLJ, IX, 147-48.

252  “I tried the whole”: CC, I, 199.

252  “I will not describe”: LPBS, II, 415.

252  “I wish I had never”: Grosskurth, 402.

253  memorial tablet: ibid., 404.

253  “the present doormat”: Marchand, III, n1001.

253  “the epitome or miniature”: MacCarthy, 420.

253  “While she lived”: Marchand, III, 994.

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254  “That time is dead”: PWPBS, 546.

255  “It seems as if”: LPBS, II, 211.

255  “A bad wife”: JCC, 123.

255  “Heigh-ho, the Clare”: JCC, 153.

255  “A better day”: JMWS, 320.

255  “Claire is yet”: LPBS, II, 218.

256  “disturb her quiet”: ibid., 228.

256  “I should be very glad”: ibid., 267.

256  “It was nearly seven”: JMWS, n337-38.

257  “He is a great loss”: LPBS, II, 297.

257  “The poor people”: White, II, 243.

257  “where she sees”: LMWS, I, 165.

257  “It is grievous to see”: ibid., 172.

258  “He was inconstant”: Hodgart, 91.

258  “Here are we then”: LPBS, II, 448.

258  “an idealized history”: ibid., 434.

258  “I never thought”: PWPBS, 413.

258  “O Comet beautiful”: ibid., 419.

258  “And all my being”: ibid., 418.

259  “I make its author”: LPBS, II, 263.

259  “died at Florence”: ibid., n263.

259  “There are other verses”: Norman, 144.

259  “an extremely pretty”: LPBS, II, 256-57.

259  “Jane is certainly”: LMWS, I, 180.

260  “Our ducking last night”: LPBS, II, 286.

260  “was so full of
Ghosts
”: BLJ, VIII, 74.

260  “they lock them up”: Lovell,
Medwin’s Conversations,
73.

261  “six feet high”: LMWS, I, 218.

261  “the personification of my”: Trueblood, 114.

261  “He tells strange stories”: JMWS, 391.

261-62 “She brought us back”: Trelawny, 172-73.

262  “We talked and laughed”: ibid., 197.

262  “Poor Mary!”: ibid., 196.

262  “Thus on that night”: JMWS, n390.

262  “Let me in my”: ibid., 399-400.

263  “I commit them”: LPBS, II, 437.

263  “The sea came up”: PWPBS, 676.

263  “The gales and squalls”: ibid., 677.

264  “Our near neighbors”: ibid.

264  “I have lived too long”: Minta, 203.

264  “I despair of rivalling”: LPBS, II, 323-24.

264  “I always find the bottom”: Trelawny, 190.

264  “Shelley was looking careworn”: Gronow, 124.

265  “Less oft is peace”: Norman, 94.

265  “languor and hysterical affections”: LPBS, II, 427.

265  “No words can tell”: LMWS, I, 244.

265  “I had no fear”: JMWS, 562.

265  “I only feel the want”: LPBS, II, 435.

266  “There it is again . . . lively imagination”: Jones,
Gisborne and Williams,
147.

266  “How long do you mean”: LMWS, 245.

266  “Shelley had often”: ibid.

266  “walk into a little wood”: Moore, II, 388.

267  “They could hardly walk”: LMWS, I, 245.

267  “be a comfort to me”: LPBS, II, 433.

267  “Whether [my] life had been”: PWPBS, 515.

267  “Then, what is life”: ibid., 520.

268  “I have not a moments”: LPBS, II, 444.

268  “I fear you are solitary”: ibid., 445.

268-69 “for they say . . . going into convulsions”: LMWS, I, 247.

269  “I had risen”: ibid.

269  “I never can forget”: Lovell,
Lady Blessington’s,
53.

270  “I went up the stairs”: Trelawny, 218.

270  “Are we to resemble that”: MacCarthy, 429.

270  “a dark and ghastly . . . soaring over us”: Trelawny, 223.

271  “more wine”: ibid., 223-224.

271  “We sang, we laughed”: Hunt, II, 102.

271  “We have been burning”: BLJ, IX, 197.

271  “I called him back”: LMWS, I, 246.

272  “There is thus another”: BLJ, IX, 190.

272  “Those who know”: Norman, 15.

272  Other publications: White,
Hearth,
330-31.