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24
Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, 24/12/1799.
The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs, I, 305.
25
See Kegan Paul,
William Godwin
, II, 214.
26
Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 29/01/1807.
The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
, ed. Edwin Marrs, II, 256.
27
William St Clair,
The Godwins and the Shelleys
, pp.353–4.
28
Percy Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 04/10/1814.
PBS Letters
, I, 402.
29
Godwin’s Journal.  Bodleian [Abinger] Dep. e. 196–277.
30
The Journals of Mary Shelley,
ed. Paula Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, I, 6.
31
Mary Shelley,
History of a Six Weeks Tour,
in
Travel Writing
, ed. Jeanne Moskal,
p.21.
32
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 18.
33
Percy Shelley to Harriet Shelley. 13/08/1814.
PBS Letters
,
I, 392.
34
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, ed. Marion Kingston Stocking, p.31.
35
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 23.
36
William Godwin,
Political Justice
, in
Political and Philosophical Writings
, ed. Mark Philip,
IV, 338–9.
37
Percy Shelley to Harriet Shelley, 14/09/1814.
PBS Letters
, I, 394–5.
38
Percy Shelley to Harriet Shelley, 26/09/1814.
PBS Letters
, I, 397.
39
As told to Edward Silsbee. Silsbee Collection, Peabody Essex Museum. Box 7, file 2.
40
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 37.
41
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 35.
42
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, p.52.
43
Percy Shelley to Mary Shelley, 27/10/1814.
PBS Letters
, I, 413–4.
44
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, p.58.
45
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, p.58.
46
British Lady’s Magazine
, I (April 1815), in
The Romantics Reviewed: Part C
, ed. Donald Reiman, I, 235.
47
Henry Robertson, William Havell and Charles Ollier to Leigh Hunt, 22/01/1815. British Library. MS Add. 38108, ff 128–9.
48
The Examiner
, 328 (10/10/14), 228.
49
Thomas Mitchell to Leigh Hunt, 23/09/1813. British Library. MS Add. 38108, ff. 83–4.

Chapter Two: Wives and Mistresses

 
1
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 56–7.
2
The Journals of Claire Clairmont
, p.48.
3
Shelley,
Queen Mab
in
The Poems of Shelley,
ed. Geoffrey Matthews and Kelvin Everest,
I, 370.
4
Percy Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 01/01/1815.
PBS Letters
, I, 423.
5
Mary Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 01/01/1815.
Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
, ed. Betty T. Bennett, I, 6.
6
Mary Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 04/01/1815.
MWS Letters
, I, 7.
7
Mary Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 07/01/1815.
MWS Letters
, I, 8.
8
Mary Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 24/01/1815.
MWS Letters
, I, 9.
9
Silsbee Collection. Box 7, File 2. Quoted in Marion Kingston Stocking, ed.,
The Clairmont Correspondence
, I, 11.
10
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 65.
11
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 68.
12
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 69.
13
Mary Shelley to Thomas Hogg, 25/04/1815 and 26/04/1815.
MWS
Letters
, I, 13, 14.
14
Godwin’s assumption that Shelley would continue to provide him with funds even while he was refused entry to his house was based on his doctrine of ‘stewardship’, summarised thus by William St Clair: ‘If by the operation of an absurd economic system a teacher lacks the modest resources necessary to do his duty, then it becomes the duty of others to divert some of their surplus towards him’ (
The Godwins and the Shelleys
, p.344). Godwin did not view Shelley’s assistance as a favour, or as a symptom of the younger man’s generosity, but as the proper fulfilment of his duty. Shelley initially accepted this argument, and, for the first few years of their acquaintance, continued to fund Godwin even as he disputed his treatment of his daughters.
15
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 78.
16
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 79.
17
The Examiner
, 371 (05/02/1815), 81.
18
All quotations from Keats’s poetry are taken from John Keats,
Complete Poems
, ed. Jack Stillinger.
19
The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon
, I, 451.
20
Leigh Hunt to Henry Brougham, 26/09/1815.
A Life in Letters
, pp.65–6.
21
Quoted in Malcolm Elwin,
Lord Byron’s Wife
, p.250.
22
Lord Byron’s Wife
, p.250.
23
See Ethel Colburn Mayne,
The Life and Letters of Anna Isabella, Lady Noel Byron
, pp.159–61.
24
Ernest J. Lovell, ed.,
Medwin’s Conversations of Lord Byron
, p.36.
25
Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 15/10/1815.
Byron’s Letters and Journals
, IV, 209.
26
Annabella Milbanke to Emily Milner, 23/09/1814. New York Public Library. MS Berg Collection.
27
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 02/02/1815.
Byron’s Letters and Journals
, IV, 263.
28
See Mayne,
The Life and Letters of Lady Byron
, p.161.

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