Claire sees at Este, 1;
Claire’s concern for, 1;
proposed adoption by Mrs Vavassour, 1;
Byron lodges at convent of Bagnacavallo, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Claire proposes abducting from convent, 1;
death and burial, 1, 2;
in Byron’s letters to Hoppners, 1;
unmentioned in MS’S biographical notes to Moxon’s edition of PBS’S works, 1;
Claire’s delusion about being still alive, 1 & n
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron: social success, 1;
admires Napoleon, 1, 2;
praises Godwin’s St Leon, 1;
proposes writing ghost stories, 1;
Claire Clairmont meets and has affair with, 1;
estrangement from wife, 1;
fame and reputation, 1;
meets MS in London, 1;
offers help to Godwin, 1;
leaves England for Geneva, 1;
with Shelleys in Geneva, 1;
life in Switzerland with PBS and MS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Polidori and, 1;
composes ghost story in Switzerland, 1;
Matthew Lewis joins in Switzerland, 1;
child by Claire, 1;
dismisses Claire Clairmont from life, 1;
MS’S devotion to, 1;
and PBS’S demand for radical reform, 1;
dislikes Hunt’s poetry, 1;
PBS writes to on care of Allegra, 1, 2;
and Allegra’s christening, 1 & n;
and care of Allegra in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
visits Montenvers, 1;
loses custody of daughter Ada, 1;
MS awaits in Italy, 1;
Claire Clairmont visits in Venice with PBS, 1;
relations with Teresa Guiccioli, 1, 2, 3, 4;
admires Frankenstein, 1;
on MS’S reaction to death of daughter, 1;
tells Medwin of unidentified lady’s affair with PBS, 1;
under threat from Foggi, 1;
PBS visits in Ravenna, 1, 2;
PBS writes to on Emilia Viviani, 1;
lodges Allegra at
Bagnacavallo convent, 1, 2, 3;
shows Hoppners’ letter on Naples baby to PBS, 1;
agrees to support Liberal (journal), 1;
retains MS’S letter to Hoppners, 1;
visits Pisa, 1, 2;
and potential scandal between PBS and Claire, 1;
shooting, 1, 2;
sailing, 1, 2;
Trelawny’s opinion of, 1;
estimate of Trelawny, 1;
plans to play Iago in Othello, 1;
Claire writes to announcing departure from Italy, 1;
inheritance at Lady Noel’s death, 1;
checks PBS’S reading of Childe Harold, 1;
and fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;
Claire holds responsible for Allegra’s death, 1;
and Allegra’s death and burial, 1;
names PBS’S boat Don Juan, 1;
owns boat (Bolivar ), 1;
on PBS’S amours, 1;
offers to accommodate Hunt, 1;
promises to fund Hunts in Italy, 1;
PBS borrows from, 1, 2n;
and PBS’S drowning, 1;
at PBS’S cremation, 1;
disturbed by Hunt children, 1;
MS acts as fair copyist, 1, 2;
as PBS’S executor, 1, 2, 3;
ungenerous behaviour to Claire, 1 & n;
effect on ms, 1;
house in Genoa, 1;
requests help for ms and son Percy from pbs’s father, 1;
goes to aid Greek cause, 1, 2, 3;
ungenerous behaviour after PBS’S death, 1;
death and burial, 1, 2;
posthumous interest in and memoirs of, 1;
memoirs destroyed, 1 & n;
Moore plans life of, 1, 2, 3;
MS gives written account of memoirs to Moore, 1;
portrayed in ms’s novels, 1, 2;
Hunt publishes recollections of, 1;
MS maintains relations with after Allegra’s death, 1;
schooling at Harrow, 1;
supposed illegitimate son, 1;
newly discovered letters, 1;
Cain, 1;
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1, 2, 3, 4;
The Corsair, 1, 2;
‘Darkness’, 1n;
The Deformed Transform’d, 1;
Don Juan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1;
‘Fare Thee Well’, 1n;
The Giaour, 1;
Lara, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Manfred, 1;
Mazeppa, 1, 2, 3;
The Prisoner of Chillon, 1;
‘To Thyrza’, 1, 2, 3;
The Vision of Judgment, 1, 2
Byron, Major George Gordon de Luna (Byron’s supposed illegitimate son), 1, 2, 3
Cabinet Cyclopaedia, 1, 2
Cabinet Library, 1
Calais, 1, 2 & n, 3
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro: Life is a Dream, 1
Cambridge University Magazine, 1n
Camoens, Luis de, 1
Campbell, Adelaide Constance, 1
Campbell, Lady Constance (later Bury), 1
Campbell, Lady Dorothea, 1
Campbell, Thomas, 1
Canning, George, 1, 2, 3n; death, 1 & n
Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount, 1 & n
Canterbury, Ellen Manners-Sutton, Viscountess, 1, 2, 3
Caradja, John, Hospodar of Wallachia, 1
Carlisle, (Sir) Anthony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Carlyle, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Caroline, Queen of George IV, 1
Carron, Abbé, 1
Carter, Georgiana (née Douglas), 1
Cary family (of Devon), 1
Castle Goring, near Worthing, 1, 2, 3, 4
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1, 2, 3n, 4
Castro, Inez (Inês) de, 1
Castruccio, Castracani degli Altelnminelli, Prince of Lucca, 1, 2, 3
Catholic Emancipation Bill (1829), 1n
Cenci, Beatrice, 1, 2, 3, 4
Chamonix, 1, 2
Champion (newspaper), 1n
Chartism, 1, 2, 3
Chester Square, London, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of, 1
cholera epidemics, 1n, 2, 3
Christchurch Priory, 1
Church Terrace, London, 1
Clairmont, Antonia (Charles’s wife), 1, 2, 3
Clairmont, Charles: childhood, 1, 2; on Fanny Imlay, 1;
schooling, 1, 2;
publishing career, 1, 2, 3;
visits Ramsgate, 1;
in Scotland with MS, 1;
on MS’S flight to France with PBS, 1;
and Godwins’ banning of MS after return from elopement, 1;
Godwin criticizes PBS to, 1;
and MS’S hostility to Claire, 1;
stays with PBS and MS at Windsor, 1;
visits Ireland with Claire, 1;
moves to France, 1;
not told of Fanny’s death, 1;
lives abroad, 1, 2;
visits MS in Italy, 1;
letter from Claire in Florence, 1;
moves to London with wife, 1;
MS pays travel expenses, 1;
returns to Vienna, 1, 2;
MS entertains at Somerset Street, 1;
MS makes gifts to children, 1;
political radicalism, 1;
and daughter Clari’s marriage, 1;
death, 1
Clairmont, Claire (Clara Mary Jane): childhood, 1& n, 2, 3; education, 1, 2, 3, 4;
memories of Skinner Street, 1;
social life in London, 1;
restlessness, 1;
and PBS’S letters to Godwin, 1;
describes Shelley, 1;
appearance, 1;
on role of women, 1;
infatuation with PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and PBS’S early relations with MS, 1, 2, 3;
on Godwin’s rebuking MS for involvement with PBS, 1;
and PBS’S suicide threat, 1;
accompanies MS on elopement with PBS to France and Switzerland, 1, 2, 3, 4;
keeps diary, 1, 2;
in Switzerland, 1;
attacks of ‘horrors’, 1, 2;
returns to England, 1, 2;
with MS in London after return from Continent, 1;
Lady Mountcashell prefers to MS, 1n, 2;
PBS’S treatment of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
adopts name Clara, then Claire, 1;
visits Godwins in Skinner Street, 1, 2;
on MS’S attitude to Hogg, 1;
and death of MS’S baby, 1;
in Marchmont Street lodgings with MS, 1;
supposed sexual relations and pregnancy with PBS, 1, 2, 3n;
leaves London for Lynmouth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
MS’S increasing hostility to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
musical performances and interests, 1, 2, 3;
visits Ireland with brother, 1, 2;
on MS’S defence of PBS’S Alastor, 1;
accompanies PBS and MS to Geneva, 1, 2;
approaches Byron for help, 1;
moves to Arabella Row, 1;
affair and child with Byron, 1, 2, 3;
travels in Alps, 1;
bequest from PBS, 1, 2, 3;
pregnancy and child by Byron, 1;
stays in Bath on return from Switzerland, 1;
unmoved by Fanny Imlay’s death, 1;
on Harriet Shelley’s pregnancy and death, 1;
and birth of daughter (Clara Allegra; ‘Alba’), 1, 2;
takes rooms in Hampstead, 1;
stays at Albion House, Marlow, 1, 2;
leaves Marlow for London, 1;
Peacock falls for, 1;
leaves for Italy with Shelleys (1818), 1;
and care of daughter Allegra, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
yields care of Allegra to Byron in Italy, 1;
falls from horse, 1;
travels in Italy with PBS and MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
fears Byron debauching daughter Allegra, 1;
visits Byron in Venice with PBS, 1, 2;
illnesses in Italy, 1, 2;
on MS’S character, 1;
rumoured pregnancy by PBS and mystery of Elena Adelaide Shelley, 1, 2n, 3;
drawing lessons, 1;
in Rome, 1;
and MS’S reaction to death of son William, 1, 2;
on MS’S sexual withdrawal, 1;
in Pisa, 1, 2;
writes travel book, 1;
leaves Shelleys for Livorno and Florence, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Mrs Mason takes care of, 1, 2, 3;
with Shelleys in Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;
MS uses sun sign for, 1 & n, 2;
believes PBS portrayed in MS’S Valperga, 1;
PBS invites on Middle East trip with Medwin, 1, 2;
and PBS’S relations with Emilia Viviani, 1;
objects to Allegra’s lodging in convent, 1, 2;
visits MS (August 1821), 1;
improved relations with MS, 1;
MS defends in letter to Mrs Hoppner, 1;
Shelleys attempt to reunite with Allegra, 1;
rejoins Shelleys in Pisa, 1, 2;
letters from PBS, 1;
meets Elise Foggi in Florence, 1;
proposes abducting Allegra from convent, 1;
and death of Allegra, 1, 2;
and PBS’S interception of Godwin’s letters to MS, 1;
and MS’S near-death from miscarriage, 1;
learns of PBS’S drowning, 1;
MS stays with after drowning of PBS, 1;
Trelawny’s relations with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
MS sends money to, 1;
inspires PBS poems, 1;
as governess in Russia, 1, 2, 3;
and MS’S collaboration with Moore on life of Byron, 1;
in Hunt’s account of Shelleys, 1n;
and Jane Williams’s relations with Hogg, 1;
MS borrows from, 1;
returns to London (1828), 1;
criticism of MS, 1;
rejoins Russian employer in Dresden, 1, 2;
criticizes Moore’s account of Byron, 1;
MS asks for help for James Marshall, 1;
excluded from MS’S later accounts of marriage to PBS, 1;
puzzled by MS’S sending son Percy to Harrow, 1;
on William Godwin junior’s death, 1;
considers returning to England (1833), 1;
idealizes society of free-loving women, 1;
puts on weight, 1;
returns to Pisa (1832), 1;
reassures MS in depression, 1;
MS helps with short story, 1;
concern for MS’S exhaustion and own difficulties, 1;
dissuades MS from writing memoir of Godwin, 1n;
and young Percy’s love affair, 1;
unmentioned in MS’S notes to Moxon’s edition of PBS’S works, 1;
complaints, 1;
shares rooms in Golden Square with Mary Jane Godwin, 1;
reports on Aubrey Beauclerk’s marriage to Rosa Robinson, 1;
and Julia Robinson’s rejection of MS, 1;
hoards and protects family papers, 1;
returns to Paris after Mary Jane Godwin’s death, 1;
MS writes to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
MS visits in Paris (1843), 1, 2, 3;
paranoia and delusions, 1, 2, 3, 4;
hostility to Jane Williams Hogg, 1 & n;
hostility to Italian patriots, 1;
visits MS in Putney, 1;
invests in box at opera, 1, 2;
and Gatteschi’s blackmail threat against MS, 1, 2;
MS scolds, 1;
and MS’S relations with Knox, 1, 2;
faith in young Percy, 1;
asked to leave Chester Square, 1;
interest in Walter Coulson, 1, 2;
rheumatic complaints, 1;
MS invites to Brighton, 1;
in Medwin’s biography of PBS, 1;
accuses MS of gossip, 1;
and MS’S relations with daughter-in-law, 1;
poverty, 1;
and niece Clara’s (Clari) visit to Field Place, 1;
hostility to Clari’s marriage, 1;
cuts off communication with MS, 1;
protests at reburial of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, 1;
moves to Florence’(1859), 1;
provides Trelawny with recollections, 1;
Catholicism, 1;
Trelawny denigrates MS to, 1;
Amelia Curran portrait of, 1;
Jane Shelley obscures birth date, 1;
in lives of PBS and MS, 1;
‘The Ideot’(story), 1;
Journals, 1
Clairmont, Clara (Charles’s daughter; ‘Clari’) see Knox, Clara
Clairmont, Jane see Clairmont, Claire
Clairmont, Mary Jane see Godwin, Mary Jane
Clairmont, Pauline (Charles’s daughter; Paula), 1, 2, 3
Clairmont, Wilhelm (Charles’s son), 1, 2, 3, 4
Clapham Sect, 1
Claris, John Chalk (‘Arthur Brooke’), 1, 2
Clarke, Agnes M., 1n
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1
Clarke, J.E: Recollections of the Medical Profession, 1n
Clarke, Mary, 1
Clarke, Mary Cowden (née Novello), 1
Clementi, Emma, 1, 2
Clementi, Muzio, 1n, 2
Clermont, Mary Anne, 1n
Clifton, near Bristol, 1, 2
Cline, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Cobbett, William, 1
Cobbett’s Political Register, 1
Colburn, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Coleridge, Hartley, 1, 2 & n
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: friendship with Godwin and family, 1; on childre
n, 1;
and Juvenile Library, 1;
recites poems, 1, 2;
lectures on Shakespeare, 1, 2;
with Gillmans in Highgate, 1 & n, 2, 3;
takes laudanum, 1n;
Byron seeks to help, 1;
Fanny sends poems to PBS and MS, 1;
talk, 1;
lectures on Prometheus, 1;
takes laughing gas, 1;
MS meets in London, 1;
death, 1;
‘The Ancient Mariner’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
‘Christabel’, 1n, 2, 3;
‘Kubla Khan’, 1n, 2, 3;
Remorse (play), 1n;
The Statesman’s Manual (Lay Sermons), 1
Collins (gardener at the Polygon), 1, 2
Como, Lake, 1, 2
Condorcet, M.J.A.N. de Caritat, marquis de, 1
Constable’s (publishing house), 1, 2, 3
Constant, Benjamin, 1
Cooke, T.P., 1, 2n, 3
Cooper (nursemaid), 1
Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe, 1, 2
Corn Laws: repeal of, 1, 2
Corneille, Pierre, 1
Cornwall, Barry see Procter, Bryan Waller
Corrie Hudson, John, 1n, 2
Cotton, Mrs, 1
Coulson, Walter, 1, 2, 3
Country Literary Chronicle, 1
Court Journal, 1
Croker, John Wilson, 1
Crosse, Andrew, 1n
Cruikshank, George, 1
Cubitt, Thomas, 1, 2
Cunningham, Revd John William, 1n, 2
Curran, Amelia: Godwin helps and welcomes, 1, 2n; affair with Lovett, 1n;
Harriet Shelley dislikes, 1;
MS meets in Rome, 1;
painting, 1;
portrait of William Shelley, 1;
and William Shelley’s illness and death, 1, 2;
portrait of PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n;
and MS’S move to Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;
visits Godwins in London, 1;
in Rome, 1;
portraits of MS and Claire, 1
Curran, John, 1, 2
Curran, William, 1
Curreli, Mario, 1
Dante Alighieri, 1; Purgatorio, 1;
Vita Nuova, 1
Darwin, Charles, 1
Darwin, Erasmus, 1
Davide (singer), 1
Davies, Scrope, 1
Davy, (Sir) Humphry, 1, 2
De L’Isle and Dudley, Philip Charles Sidney, 1st Baron, 1
Defell, George, 1
Dejean, M. (Swiss hotelier), 1
Delessert, Gabriel, 1
de Quincey, Thomas, 1, 2
Descartes, René, 1
Dibdin, Charles, 1
Dickens, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Hard Times, 1