121 “I am much afraid”: ibid.
121 “The great object”: Garrett, 7.
122 “I felt as if”: Minta, 181.
122 “We were married”: BLJ, IV, 249.
122 “[H]ad Lady B”: Longford, 71.
122 “the treaclemoon”: BLJ, III, 175.
122 “She—or rather”: BLJ, V, 91.
123 “You had better”: MacCarthy, 275.
123 “An utter stranger”: CC, I, 24-25.
124 “I have called twice”: ibid., 27.
124 “I am now wavering”: ibid., 30.
124 “Lasciate ogni”: ibid., 31.
124 “If you think ill”: ibid., 29.
125 “I will bring her”: ibid., 36.
125 “Will you be so good”: ibid., 39.
125 “Mary is delighted”: ibid., 40.
125 “Have you then”: ibid., 36.
125 “I was young”: Graham, 760.
126 “if a girl of eighteen”: BLJ, V, 162.
126 “God bless you”: CC, I, n37.
126 “I am unhappily”: MacCarthy, 273.
126 “I assure you”: CC, I, 40.
Chapter6: The Summer of Darkness
127 “I busied myself”: F1831, 21-22.
128 “echo of the Infinite”: Mellor, 70.
128 “We have had lately”: BLJ, V, 86.
128-29 Mount Tambora statistics: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969 ed., XXIII, 104.
129 “when first I stepped”: Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy, I, 139.
129 “you will I suppose”: CC, I, 43.
129 “desolate . . . sublime”: Shelley, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 93.
130 “the majestic”: ibid.
130 “I feel as happy”: LMWS, I, 18.
130 “saluted by”: ibid., 18.
130 “I leave this”: CC, I, 46.
130 “the curiosity to see”: Minta, 183.
132 “a madman”: MacDonald, 23.
132 “You wound my heart”: ibid., 24.
133 “The sea dashed over”: ibid., 60.
133 “As soon as he reached”: ibid., 62.
133 “I am very pleased”: Page, 148.
134 “First . . . I can hit”: Eisler, 511.
134 “not much after . . . I detest the cause”: BLJ, V, 76.
134 “I brought away”: BLJ, V, 78.
134 “a curst selfish”: Minta, 185.
134 “clouds were mountains”: MacCarthy, 289.
134 “Lake Leman woos me”: Longford, 98.
134 “I am sorry”: CC, I, 46.
135 “You will hardly believe”: Grosskurth, 278.
135 “It seems to me”: BLJ, V, 131.
136 “the author of”: Polidori, Diary, 101.
136 “I have been”: CC, I, 47.
136 “Now—don’t scold”: BLJ, V, 92.
137 “We watch them”: LMWS, I, 20.
137 “often whilst the storms”: Polidori, Vampyre, xiv.
137 Oarsman’s account: Lovell, His Very Self, 183.
137 “The sky is changed!”: PLB, 222.
138 “the prettiest place”: BLJ, V, 187-88.
138 “most intimate friends”: Lewalski, 9.
139 “There is no story”: MacCarthy, 295.
139 “it proved a wet”: Walling, 28.
139 “at about a mile”: CC, I, n53.
139 “With false Ambition”: PLB, 91.
140 “Now you who wish”: Polidori, Diary, 123.
140 “After a moment”: Lovell, His Very Self, 182-83.
141 “I despair of”: Tomalin, Shelley, 55.
141 “Beauty sat on”: JMWS, 478.
141 “We often sat up”: Walling, 28.
142 “the nature of”: F1831, 22.
142 “What a pity”: Grylls, Godwin, 151.
143 “phantasmagoria”: JMWS, 56.
144 “excited in us”: F1831, 25.
144 “You and I”: Sunstein, 121.
144 “There were four”: F1831, 21.
144 “I busied myself”: ibid., 21.
144 “The ghost-stories begun”: Page, 49.
145 “founded on the experiences”: F1831, 21.
145 “more apt to”: ibid., 21.
145 “Poor Polidori had”: ibid., 21.
146 “In short, the man”: Blunden, 134.
146 “Then drawing in”: Grebanier et al., English Literature, IV, 201.
147 “. . . his lordship having”: Polidori, Diary, 128.
147 “Have you thought of”: F1831, 22.
148 “various philosophical . . . listener”: ibid.
148 all, ibid., 22-23
149 all, ibid., 23.
Chapter7: “A hideous phantom”
151 “Did I request thee”: Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, ll. 743-45, 232.
151 “thought of a story”: F1831, 23.
151 “It was on a dreary night”: ibid., 57.
151 “With an anxiety,” ibid., 57-58.
152 “the wretch”: ibid., 58.
153 “is an exceedingly”: LPBS, I, 489.
154 “precisely in the spot”: ibid., 486.
154 “himself quietly upon”: Moore, Thomas, II, 23.
154 “I knew that my companion”: LPBS, 483.
154 “a multitude of names”: LPBS, 485.
154 “I vowed that I”: PWPBS, 531.
156 “I eagerly inquired”: F1818, 24.
156 “Whence, I often asked”: ibid., 33-34.
157 “As the minuteness”: ibid., 35-36.
157 “A new species”: ibid., 36.
157 “Pursuing these reflections”: ibid.
158 “Who shall conceive”: ibid., 36-37.
158 “any person she”: Tomalin, Shelley, 58.
158 “dreary night . . . dull yellow eye”: F1818, 38.
158 “I thought I saw”: ibid., 39.
159 one of Mary Wollstonecraft’s children’s books: Original Stories from Real Life, 20-27.
159 “[H]is conversation”: F1818, 51.
160 “with sweet laughing”: ibid., 47.
160 “While I watched”: ibid., 56.
161 “I considered the being”: ibid., 57.
161 “Thou art a symbol”: PLB, 98.
162 “Whether with particles”: Ovid, 4-5.
163 “The day was cloudless”: JMWS, 113.
163 “[T]his appeared the most”: ibid., 115.
163 “[A]s we went along”: ibid.
163 “horrid avowal”: CC, I, n53.
163 “Nothing can be more desolate”: JMWS, 117.
164 “I . . . write my story”: ibid., 118.
164 “This is the most desolate”: ibid., 119.
164 “kiss our babe”: ibid., 121.
165 “afterwards we all”: JMWS, 125.
166 “a good man”: BLJ, IX, 18.
166 “that none could believe”: JMWS, 126.
167 “was, from the first”: F1831, 20.
167 “No father had watched”: F1818, 97.
168 “a true history”: ibid., 104-05.
169 “the minutest description”: ibid., 105.
170 “Remember, I shall be”: ibid., 140.
170 “She was there”: ibid., 165.
170 “While I still hung”: ibid., 166.
171 “All men hate”: ibid., 77.
171 “My dreadful fear”: CC, I, 70.
Chapter8: “I shall be no more . . .”
172 “He sprung from”: F1818, 191.
172 “Do not think”: ibid., 190.
174 “it is of the utmost”: CC, I, 81.
174 “stupid letter from F”: JMWS, 138.
174 “I depart immediately”: CC, I, 85.
174 “In the evening”: JMWS, 139.
174 “I have long determined”: Paul, II, 242.
174 “when I shall be”: F1818, 190.
175 “Mr. G. told me”: Jones, Gisborne, 39.
175 “Go not to Swansea”: JMWS, n140.
175 “From the fatal
day”: ibid.
176 “Her voice did quiver”: PWPBS, 546.
176 “modify and change”: Engar, Ann, “Mary Shelley and the Romance of Science” in Dabundo, 138.
177 “By painful experience”: Einstein, Albert, Out of My Later Years (New York: New York Philosophical Library, 1950), 144.
178 “Is it wrong”: Blunden, 161.
178 “I have not written”: Tomalin, Shelley, 61.
178 “Too wretched”: Hodgart, 15.
178 “far advanced”: LPBS, I, n521.
179 “It seems that”: ibid., 521.
179 “I don’t think”: JMWS, n151.
179 “Poor Harriet”: ibid., 560.
180 “[Y]our nominal union”: LPBS, I, 521.
180 “Of course you are”: St. Clair, 415.
180 “was a change”: LPBS, I, 539-40.
180 “The piece of news”: Paul, II, 246.
181 “a marriage”: JMWS, 152.
181 “Another incident”: LMWS, I, 26.
181 “sends her affectionate”: ibid., 26.
181 “You know”: BLJ, V, 162.
182 “a house with a lawn”: LMWS, I, 22.
182 “A fire in his eye”: Blunden, 176-77.
182 “Claire has reassumed”: LPBS, I, 395.
182 “Her eyes are”: ibid.
183 “My affections are”: CC, I, 110.
183 “Shelley’s fullness”: JMWS, n158-59.
184 “She loved Scythrop”: Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, 95-96.
184 “I had a dream”: LMWS, I, 32.
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.
Chapter9: The Ghosts’ Revenge
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 “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.
Chapter10: A Dose for Poor Polidori
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 “delicate 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.
Chapter11: The Littlest Victim
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.