James, Henry, 1, 2; The Aspern Papers, 1n
Jameson, Anna, 1, 2, 3, 4
Jerdan, William, 1
Jervis, Sir John, MP, 1
Jesse, Captain: life of Beau Brummell, 1
Jewsbury, Geraldine, 1
Jewsbury, Maria Jane (later Fletcher), 1
John Bull (newspaper), 1, 2
Johnes, Mrs (of Herefordshire), 1
Johnson, Joseph, 1n, 2, 3
Johnson, Samuel, 1 Jones, Frederick L., 2n
Jones, Louisa, 1, 2, 3, 4
Juvenile Library, 1, 2
Kaisaroff, Natalie, 1
Karloff, Boris, 1, 2
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1, 2
Kean, Edmund, 1, 2
Keats, John: Leigh Hunt recognizes, 1; Shelleys’ attitude to, 1;
PBS reads poems to MS, 1;
visits and dies in Italy, 1;
PBS writes Adonais in memory of, 1, 2;
Godwin influences, 1;
Society formed, 1;
Hyperion, 1
Keepsake (annual), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Kelsall, Thomas, 1, 2
Kemble, Charles, 1
Kemble, Frances (‘Fanny’), 1, 2, 3
Kennedy, Benjamin, 1
Kenney, James, 1, 2n, 3, 4
Kenney, Mrs James (formerly Holcroft), 1n, 2
Kent, Elizabeth (Bessy), 1, 2, 3; Flora Domestica, 1
Kent, Tom, 1
Kentish Town, London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
King, Margaret see Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady
Kingsborough, George King, Viscount (later 3rd Earl of Kingston), 1, 2
Kippis, Andrew, 1
Kitchiner, Dr William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Knapp, Leonora, 1, 2, 3
Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 1
Knight’s Quarterly, 1
Knox, Alexander: MS travels in Europe with, 1; Gatteschi stays with in England, 1;
and Gatteschi’s blackmail threats, 1, 2;
MS gives money to, 1;
Claire believes MS has affair with, 1, 2;
coded letter from MS, 1;
and young Percy’s Chester Square house, 1;
visits MS in Brighton, 1;
in Sandgate with MS, 1;
marriage to Clara Clairmont, 1, 2;
remarries after Clara’s death, 1
Knox, Clara (née Clairmont; Charles’s daughter; ‘Clari’), 1, 2
Lackington and Company (publishers), 1, 2
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul du Motier, marquis de, 1, 2, 3
Lamartine, Alphonse, 1, 2, 3, 4
Lamb, Lady Caroline see Melbourne, Viscountess
Lamb, Charles: friendship with Godwin, 1, 2; dislikes Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;
Christy Baxter visits, 1;
at East India Company, 1;
reclusiveness, 1;
literary success, 1;
seeks help for Godwin, 1;
visits MS with adopted daughter, 1;
detests music, 1;
and Novellos, 1;
friendship with MS, 1;
likes Payne, 1;
death, 1;
fails to recognize PBS’S genius, 1;
The Adventures of Ulysses, 1
Lamb, Emma Isola (Charles’s adopted daughter), 1
Lamb, Mary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Mrs Leicester’s School, 1;
Tales from Shakespeare (with Charles Lamb), 1
Lamb, William see Melbourne, 2nd Viscount
Lardner, Dionysius, 1 & n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
La Rochefoucauld, François, due de, 1, 2
La Spezia, 1, 2
Lawrence, James (‘the Chevalier’), 1, 2, 3
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 1, 2, 3
Lawrence, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Layton House, Putney, 1, 2, 3
Leader (magazine), 1n, 2
Leader, Temple, 1, 2, 3
Lear, Edward, 1
Lee, Harriet, 1
Leech, John, 1
Leigh, Augusta Mary: relations with Byron, 1; and Byron’s affair with Claire Clairmont, 1;
and Claire’s child by Byron, 1;
Byron invites to Italy, 1;
and burning of Byron’s memoirs, 1n;
and Byron’s supposed illegitimate son, 1
Lennox, Lady Sussex, 1, 2, 3
Lennox, Lord Sussex, 1, 2
Léon, Captain (Napoleon’s illegitimate son), 1
Leopardi, Giacomo, 1
Lerici, 1, 2, 3
Leroux (builder), 1
Lewes, Agnes, 1
Lewes, George Henry, 1, 2
Lewis, Mary Anne (later Disraeli), 1 & n
Lewis, Matthew (‘Monk’), 1
Liberal (journal), 1, 2, 3, 4
Lindsay, David see Dods, Mary Diana
Literary Gazette, 1, 2, 3
Literary Panorama (magazine), 1
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of, 1, 2n
Livorno, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Locke, John, 1, 2
London: conditions, 1; MS returns to from Italy (1823), 1;
rebuilding and development, 1, 2;
and cholera epidemic, 1n;
see also individual streets and districts
London Corresponding Society, 1
London Magazine, 1, 2, 3
Longdill, Pynson Wilmot, 1n
Louis XVI, King of France, 1, 2
Louis Philippe, King of France, 1, 2, 3
Lucca, 1, 2
Lynmouth, Devon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7
Lynn, William, 1n
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 1n, 2
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1, 2
Mackintosh, Sir James, 1
Maclise, Daniel, 1
Macready, William, 1
McTavishe, Miss, 1
Magni, Villa see Lerici
Maitland, Captain (later Rear-Admiral Sir) Frederick Lewis, 1
Manners-Sutton, Ellen see Canterbury, Viscountess
Mansfield, Katherine, 1
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1, 2 & n
Marchmont Street, London, 1
Margaret Street, London, 1
Marlow, 1, 2, 3, 4; see also Albion House
Marshall, Florence, 1, 2, 3, 4
Marshall, James: friendship with Godwin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and Hannah Godwin, 1;
cares for Godwin’s children, 1;
banished by Mary Jane Godwin, 1, 2;
and PBS’S suicide threat with MS, 1;
MS confides in, 1;
home in Holborn, 1;
financial difficulties, 1
Martin, John, 1, 2
Martineau, Harriet, 1
Martini, Count, 1, 2
Masi, Sergeant-Major Stefano (Italian dragoon), 1, 2, 3
Mason, Catherine Elizabeth Louisa (‘Nerina’), 1
Mason, Laura (Mrs Mason’s daughter) see Galloni, Anna Laura Georgina
Mason, Mrs see Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady
Mathews, Charles, 1
Matilda, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, 1
Maturin, Charles, 1
Mavrocordato, Alexander, Prince, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Maxwell, Colonel, 1
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1, 2, 3
Medmenham Abbey, 1
Medwin, Pilfold, 1, 2
Medwin, Thomas: visits Geneva, 1; writes Life of PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
travels to Middle East, 1;
visits Shelleys at Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;
character and appearance, 1;
on PBS’S dress, 1;
and Pacchiani, 1, 2;
seeks rich wife in Italy, 1;
St Aubyn entertains, 1n;
with Byron in Pisa, 1, 2;
visits Mrs Beauclerk, 1;
writes memoir of Byron, 1;
on MS’S relations with PBS, 1;
on PBS’S marriage to MS, 1;
MS commends Mary Dods’s writings to, 1;
marriage, 1;
blackmails MS, 1;
Conversations of Lord Byron, 1, 2, 3
Melbourne, Caroline Lamb, Viscountess, 1, 2, 3
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mengaldo, Chevalier Angelo, 1, 2
Mercier family, 1n
Mercier, Sébastien: L’An 2440, 1
Meredith, George, 1, 2, 3
Meredith, Mary Ellen (née Peacock), 1, 2, 3, 4
Mérimée, Prosper, 1, 2
Merriweather, Francis, 1
Messager, Le (newspaper), 1
Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi), 1
Metropolitan (magazine), 1
Metternich-Winneburg, Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von, 1, 2
Milanie, Mlle (dancer), 1
Milnes, Richard Monckton (later Baron Houghton), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Milton, John: Paradise Lost, 1; Comus, 1
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de, 1
Missolonghi, 1, 2
Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1
Montagu, Basil, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mont Blanc, 1
Monthly Censor, 1
Monthly Chronicle, 1n
Monthly Magazine, 1
Monthly Mirror, 1
Monthly Review, 1, 2, 3
Monti, Vicenzo, 1
Montpensier, Duke of, 1n
Moore, Helen: biography of MS, 1n
Moore, Thomas: Christy Baxter meets, 1; MS helps with life of Byron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and authorship of MS’S History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1;
and Byron’s reluctance to employ Elise Foggi to care for Allegra, 1;
Byron gives memoirs to, 1;
resents MS’S suggestions, 1;
at Joshua Robinson’s evenings, 1;
advises MS to admit knowledge of Jane Williams’s treachery, 1;
Claire criticizes account of Byron, 1;
Trelawny claims MS helps, 1;
and MS’S meeting with Bulwer, 1n;
attends parties at MS’S, 1;
on MS’S social circle, 1;
Elizabeth Stanhope detests, 1;
literary earnings, 1;
seeks access for MS to Holland’s library, 1;
hears gossip about Caroline Norton, 1;
singing, 1;
MS requests copy of PBS’S Queen Mab from, 1;
on Jeremiah Ratcliffe, 1;
The Life of Lord Byron, 1, 2, 3n
More, Hannah, 1; Florio, 1n
Morgan, Sydney, Lady (Sydney Owenson): on King of Sardinia, 1; travels in Italy, 1, 2;
on Italian bores, 1;
success as writer, 1;
broadmindedness, 1;
entertaining, 1;
friendship with MS, 1, 2;
opposes Austrian and papal subjection of Italy, 1;
Florence Macarthy, 1n;
Italy, 1
Morning Chronicle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Morton, George Douglas, Earl of, 1, 2
Mountcashell, Margaret, Lady (née King), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Godwin meets, 1;
Mary Jane writes to on children’s education, 1;
Godwin writes to, 1;
Mary Jane Godwin tells of MS’S infatuation with PBS, 1;
told of MS’S elopement, 1;
leaves England with Tighe, 1, 2;
adopts name ‘Mrs Mason’ abroad, 1;
Mary Jane Godwin writes to, 1, 2, 3;
prefers Jane Clairmont to MS, 1n, 2;
in Pisa, 1, 2, 3;
advises and rallies Shelleys, 1;
relations with Tighe, 1;
takes care of Claire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
visits Shelleys in Bagno di San Giuliano, 1;
recognizes MS in adulthood, 1;
ill-health, 1;
PBS asks to rescue Emilia Viviani from convent, 1;
PBS proposes Allegra stay with, 1;
and Claire’s threatened departure from Italy, 1;
intercepts and censors Godwin’s correspondence to MS, 1;
coldness to MS after death of PBS, 1;
praises MS’S generosity to Claire, 1;
advises MS to return to England as widow, 1;
funds MS’S return fare to England, 1;
letters from MS in London, 1;
marries Tighe, 1;
death, 1;
as confidante to PBS, 1;
in Curreli’s Maurice, 1
Mountcashell, Stephen, 2nd Earl of, 1
Moxon, Edward: asks Godwin about monument to Mary Wollstonecraft, 1n; and publication of PBS’S poetry, 1, 2, 3, 4;
visits Godwin, 1;
prosecuted for blasphemous libel, 1, 2;
MS writes to, 1, 2;
trial, 1;
and MS’S plan to write account of travels, 1;
and MS’S ill health, 1;
and Hogg’s biography of PBS, 1
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1; La Clemenza di Tito, 1
Mulready, William, 1
Murray, John: Byron introduces Godwin to, 1; commissions Polidori to keep diary, 1;
turns down Frankenstein, 1;
seeks help for Godwin, 1;
and burning of Byron’s memoirs, 1n;
MS proposes writing for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
correspondence with Teresa Guiccioli, 1;
payments for novels, 1;
requests portrait of MS, 1n;
publishes Byron, 1;
sends illustrations of Byron works to MS, 1;
and Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, 1
Murry, John Middleton, 1
Mylius, W.F., 1
Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1
Nash, John, 1, 2
Nathan, Isaac: Hebrew Melodies, 1
National Gallery, London, 1
National Magazine and Monthly Critic, 1
New Harmony, Indiana, 1
Newburgh, Scotland, 1
New Monthly Magazine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Newton, Cornelia, 1
Newton, John Frank, 1, 2
Newton, John Gilbert, 1, 2
Newton, Samuel, 1, 2, 3
Nicholson, William, 1, 2, 3
Noel, Judith, Lady (formerly Milbanke): death, 1
Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of, 1, 2
Norfolk, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of, 1
Northcote, James, 1, 2
Norton, Caroline, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother, 1
Norton, George, 1, 2
Nott, Dr John, 1
Novello, Clara, 1
Novello, Mary Sabilla, 1
Novello, Vincent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Nugent, Catherine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
October ‘Treason Trials’ (1794), 1, 2
Ogilvie, William, 1, 2
Ogilvie, Mrs William (formerly Duchess of Leinster), 1 & n
Ollier, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
O’Neill, Eliza, 1
Opera Glass (magazine), 1
Opie, Amelia (née Alderson), 1, 2, 3n, 4; Adeline Mowbray, 1, 2
Opie, John, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Orcagna, Andrea: The Triumph of Death (frescoes), 1
Orkney islands, 1
Osnaburgh (ship), 1
Owen, Sir Richard, 1n
Owen, Robert, 1
Owen, Robert Dale, 1, 2, 3; Threading My Way, 1
Oxford: PBS expelled from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6
Pacchiani, Francesco, 1, 2, 3
Paddington, 1
Paganini, Niccolò, 1
Paine, Thomas: in French Revolution, 1; leaves England for America, 1;
Hazlitt on, 1;
advises Mary Wollstonecraft, 1;
at Johnson’s dinner, 1;
The Rights of Man, 1, 2n, 3
Palacio, Jean de: Mary Shelley dans son oeuvre, 1
Palermo, 1
Paley, William: Natural Theology, 1
Paris: surren
ders to Allies (1814), 1; MS and PBS visit, 1;
MS visits on return to England, 1, 2;
MS visits (1828), 1;
MS stays with Douglases in (1828–9), 1;
MS stays in (1840), 1;
MS visits Claire in (1843), 1, 2, 3
Paris, Dr John Ayrton, 1
Park, Mungo, 1n, 2
Park Street, Mayfair, 1
Parker, Elizabeth (‘Suora Ancilla’; ‘Sister Betsy’), 1n, 2n
Parker, Robert, 1
Parry-Jones, Miss Corbet, 1
Pascal, Marguerite, 1
Pasta, Giuditta, 1, 2
Patrickson, Procter: suicide, 1
Paul family, 1, 2, 3, 4
Paul, C. Kegan, 1, 2, 3
Paul, Georgiana (née Beauclerk; ‘Gee’), 1, 2& n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; death, 1
Paul, Sir John, 1, 2
Paul, Lady, 1, 2
Payne, John Howard: friendship with William Godwin, jr, 1, 2; attachment to MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
writings, 1;
and MS’S visit to Windsor, 1;
provides theatre and opera tickets for MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
in Paris, 1, 2;
and Badams’ marriage, 1;
MS praises Frances Wright to, 1;
debts, 1
Peacock, Mary Ellen (TLP’s daughter) see Meredith, Mary Ellen
Peacock, Thomas Love: on Newton family, 1n; on Harriet Shelley’s elegance, 1;
advises Harriet Shelley on travelling expenses, 1;
character and qualities, 1;
maintains relations with MS and PBS after return from elopement, 1, 2;
plans return to Egham, 1;
and PBS’S Windsor house, 1, 2;
visits PBS at Windsor, 1;
on PBS’S fancies, 1;
manages PBS’S affairs during absence abroad, 1, 2;
mocks social conditions, 1;
Shelleys stay with near Marlow, 1;
helps PBS find home at Marlow, 1;
MS’S attitude to, 1, 2, 3;
supervises renovation of Albion House, Marlow, 1;
infatuation with Claire, 1;
questioned about authorship of Frankenstein, 1;
post with East India Company, 1;