writing-desk and contents delivered to, 1;
unworldliness, 1, 2, 3;
resumes writing, 1;
teaches son Percy to read and speak English, 1;
plans to return to England, 1;
and Sir Timothy’s offer of help for son Percy, 1;
believes Byron hostile and ungenerous, 1;
travels back to England as widow, 1;
return to London (1823), 1;
scandalous reputation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Sir Timothy makes repayable allowance to, 1;
abandons writing drama, 1;
journalistic and short story writing, 1, 2, 3, 4;
high spirits, 1;
and Procter’s proposal to publish PBS’S poetry, 1;
and PBS’S involvement with Emilia Viviani, 1;
writes preface to PBS’S Posthumous Poems, 1;
life as widow in London, 1;
at Novellos’ home, 1;
lodges in Kentish Town, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
relations with Jane Williams in London, 1, 2, 3, 4;
walking, 1;
approached for help by Byron’s biographers, 1;
deters suitors, 1, 2, 3;
helps Moore with life of Byron, 1;
receives payment from John Murray, 1;
in lives of PBS, 1;
prefers and adopts identity as woman, 1;
friendship with Mary Diana Dods, 1, 2;
borrowings, 1, 2;
Jane Williams abandons for Hogg, 1, 2;
in Sompting, Sussex, 1, 2;
friendship with Isabel Douglas (Robinson), 1, 2, 3;
learns of Jane Williams’s treachery, 1, 2;
moves to Arundel, 1;
connives at Douglas deception, 1;
moves to Portman Square, 1;
admits knowledge of treachery to Jane Williams, 1;
resumes and maintains friendship with Jane Williams, 1;
visits Paris with Julia Robinson (1828), 1;
illness in Paris, 389; in Paris with Douglases, 1;
smallpox and disfigurement, 1, 2;
relations with Mérimée, 1;
flirtatious manner, 1;
stays in Hastings, 1, 2;
reviews father’s Cloudesley, 1, 2;
Claire Clairmont turns on, 1;
pays Charles Clairmont’s travel expenses, 1;
allowance from Sir Timothy, 1, 2;
literary earnings, 1, 2, 3;
literary proposals to John Murray, 1;
writes Lives of eminent foreigners for Lardner, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
rewrites history of marriage to PBS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
moderates political views, 1;
social life and circle in Somerset Street, 1;
portraits by Rothwell, 1, 2, 3, 4;
melancholy and depressions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
apparent marriage suggestion to Trelawny, 1;
enrols son Percy at Harrow school, 1;
lives in Harrow, 1, 2, 3, 4;
hopes of marriage to Aubrey Beauclerk, 1, 2, 3;
influenza, 1;
looks after aunt Everina Wollstonecraft, 1, 2;
depicts self in novels, 1;
and father’s death and burial, 1, 2;
moves to Regent’s Park, 1, 2;
cares for stepmother in widowhood, 1, 2, 3;
friendship with Caroline Norton, 1;
prepares to edit father’s letters and write memoir, 1, 2;
takes health break in Brighton (1836), 1;
religious views, 1, 2;
and PBS’S reputation, 1, 2;
overwork and exhaustion, 1;
acceptance into London social circles, 1, 2;
breach with Trelawny, 1;
efuses to become public figure, 1;
prepares texts and biographical notes for Moxon’s edition of PBS’S works, 1, 2, 3;
lives in Putney, 1, 2, 3, 4;
onset of meningioma (brain disease), 1, 2, 3;
travels with young Percy and friends on Continent, 1;
betrayed by Julia Robinson, 1;
second trip to continent with young Percy and Knox (1842), 1;
visits Claire in Paris, 1, 2;
adopts Shelley name as author, 1;
hostility to Austrian subjection of Italy, 1;
fears suicide impulses, 1;
overprotective feelings about son Percy, 1, 2;
inherits Field Place from Sir Timothy, 1, 2;
and Sir Timothy’s death and will, 1;
and son Percy’s political ambitions, 1, 2;
political views, 1;
invests in railways, 1;
threatened by Gatteschi, 1;
buys PBS letters, 1;
takes waters at Baden-Baden, 1, 2;
moves to Chester Square house, 1;
ill health (‘neuralgia of the heart’), 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Claire’s relations with Coulson, 1;
biography by Florence Marshall, 1, 2, 3;
buys Lady Shelley’s carriage, 1;
in Medwin’s biography of PBS, 1;
sense of social exclusion, 1;
growing political conservatism, 1, 2;
friendly relations with daughter-in-law Jane, 1, 2, 3;
moves into Field Place, 1;
offers to translate Laura Galloni, 1 & n;
Claire’s final estrangement from, 1;
travels to south of France, 1;
paralysis and death, 1;
obituary, 1;
Jane organizes tributes and relics, 1;
memorial monument, 1;
Easton miniature of, 1n;
accused of coldness, 1;
posthumous reputation and representation, 1, 2;
denigrated by Trelawny in Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 1;
portrait by ‘Cleobulina’ Fielding, 1;
later biographies and assessments of, 1;
‘The Bride of Modern Italy’, 1, 2;
‘The Choice’, 1, 2;
‘The Dirge’, 1;
‘The Elder Son’, 1;
Falkner, 1, 2;
‘The False Rhyme’, 1;
‘Ferdinando Eboli’, 1;
‘Hate’ (lost story), 1;
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1, 2;
‘The Invisible Girl’, 1;
Journals (ed. Feldman and Scott-Kilvert), 1;
The Last Man, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5 & n, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
Lodore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8;
Matilda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Midas, 1;
‘A Monody on the death of William Godwin’, 1;
‘The Mourner’, 1;
‘O listen while I sing to thee’, 1;
Perkin Warbeck, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Proserpine, 1, 2;
Rambles in Germany and Italy, 1, 2;
‘A Tale of the Passions’, 1;
‘Transformation’, 1;
‘Valerius, the Reanimated Roman’, 1;
Valperga, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7n, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
‘A Visit to Brighton’, 1;
see also Frankenstein as a separate heading
Shelley, Mary (Sir Timothy’s daughter), 1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: on Skinner Street, 1; correspondence with Godwin, 1, 2;
elopes with Harriet and breaks with family, 1, 2, 3;
expelled from Oxford, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5;
Godwin’s expectations of financial support from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
irresponsibility, 1;
Isabella Baxter’s likeness to, 1;
in Devon and North Wales with wife and Elizabeth Hitchener, 1;
interest in funding Tremadoc, 1, 2, 3;
visits Godwin, 1;
appearance and manner, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
birth of daughter Ianthe, 1;
leaves Godwins, 1;
temperament and character, 1;
borrow
ings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
marriage relations with Harriet, 1, 2;
obtains marriage licence for Harriet, 1;
first recorded meeting with MS, 1;
interest in ms, 1;
paranoia, 1;
as MS’S lover, 1;
proposes abolition of marriage, 1;
threatens and attempts suicide, 1;
flees to France with MS, 1;
in France and Switzerland with MS, 1;
invites Harriet to Switzerland, 1;
wishes to adopt young girls, 1;
criticizes Jane Clairmont, 1;
in Switzerland, 1;
financial worries, 1, 2;
plans novel in Switzerland (‘The Assassin’), 1;
returns to England, 1;
and birth of son Charles, 1;
hides from creditors, 1, 2;
vegetarianism, 1, 2, 3;
depicted in MS’S Lodore, 1;
treatment of Jane Clairmont, 1, 2;
ancestry, 1, 2;
plans alternative commune, 1;
relations with Hogg, 1;
keeps journal with MS, 1, 2, 3, 4;
inheritance expectations, 1;
poor health, 1, 2;
wins settlement in Chancery suit, 1n, 2;
takes MS to Salt Hill, 1;
supposed sexual relations with MS, 1;
receives allowance from father, 1, 2 & n, 3;
with MS in Torquay, 1;
Lawrence reassures over health, 1;
takes house at Bishopsgate, Windsor, 1, 2;
anti-slavery principles, 1;
proposes waterway tour of Britain, 1;
praises MS’S learning Latin, 1;
on birth of son William, 1;
leaves for Geneva, 1, 2, 3;
lacks public recognition as poet, 1, 2, 3;
life in Switzerland with MS and Byron, 1, 2, 3;
writes Preface to 1818 edition of Frankenstein, 1, 2;
frightened by Byron’s ghost story, 1;
and genesis of MS’S Frankenstein, 1, 2;
travels in Alps, 1, 2;
bequests to Claire and friends, 1, 2, 3;
and Claire Clairmont’s child, 1;
maintains responsibility for Claire, 1;
demands radical reform, 1;
in Bath with MS and Claire, 1, 2;
and Fanny Imlay’s suicide, 1;
financial aid for Leigh Hunt, 1;
Leigh Hunt praises poetry of, 1;
praises MS’S writing talent, 1;
learns of Harriets suicide, 1;
marriage to MS, 1;
seeks custody of elder children, 1, 2;
and Godwin’s posthumous slander of Harriet, 1n;
Thornton Hunt’s affection for, 1;
in Albion House, Marlow, 1, 2;
not awarded custody of elder children, 1n, 2 & n, 3;
philanthropy, 1;
on poet as unlegislated champion of justice, 1;
writes words for songs for Claire Clairmont, 1;
arranges publication of Frankenstein, 1;
and paternity of Allegra Byron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
writes to Byron on care of Allegra, 1, 2;
exhaustion, 1;
fears for custody of younger children, 1;
protests at political suppression, 1, 2;
suspected of authorship of Frankenstein, 1;
eye infection, 1;
leaves England for Italy (1818), 1, 2, 3;
concern at Byron’s claims on Allegra’s upbringing, 1;
health in Italy, 1;
in Pisa, 1, 2, 3, 4;
home in Casa Bertini, Bagni di Lucca, 1;
horse-riding, 1;
investment in Reveley’s steamboat venture, 1, 2;
suggests MS write tragic drama, 1;
love for MS, 1;
translation of Plato’s Symposium, 1, 2, 3;
accompanies Claire Clairmont to Venice, 1, 2;
summons MS with sick daughter to Venice, 1, 2, 3;
ill health in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
and death of Clara, 1, 2;
supposed sexual infection, 1, 2n, 3;
travels in Italy, 1;
and charge (Elena Adelaide) in Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & n, 7, 8;
and rumours of Claire Clairmont’s Naples pregnancy, 1;
possible liaison and child with Elise, 1n;
Medwin writes biography of, 1, 2, 3;
lodges in Rome, 1;
and death of son William, 1;
and MS’S despair after son William’s death, 1, 2, 3;
reads Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey, 1;
in Florence, 1;
portrait by Amelia Curran, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n;
sensual nature, 1;
shunned in Italy, 1;
political sympathies, 1, 2, 3;
stays in Pisa, 1;
and Claire’s disturbing effect on MS, 1;
intercepts Godwin’s letters to MS, 1, 2, 3;
and Claire’s move to Florence, 1;
moves to Bagni di San Giuliano, 1;
deteriorating marriage relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Godwin disparages to Gisbornes, 1;
rift with Gisbornes, 1;
climbing, 1;
supposedly portrayed in Valperga, 1;
on MS’S devotion to son Percy, 1;
invites Claire on Middle East trip with Medwin, 1, 2;
writes to Claire from San Giuliano, 1;
visits Byron at Ravenna, 1, 2;
boils, 1;
and Greek independence, 1;
involvement with Emilia Viviani, 1, 2, 3, 4;
sailing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Byron’s moving Allegra to convent, 1;
relations with Claire in San Giuliano, 1;
shooting, 1, 2;
and Claire’s proposal to abduct Allegra from convent, 1;
flirtation with Jane Williams, 1, 2;
in fracas with Italian dragoon, 1;
at Lerici, 1;
requests prussic acid from Trelawny, 1 & n;
sleepwalking and hallucinations, 1;
on Claire at death of Allegra, 1;
and MS’S near-death from miscarriage, 1;
medical knowledge, 1n;
dreams and visions, 1;
drowned at sea, 1, 2, 3, 4;
cremation and burial, 1;
heart kept as relic, 1, 2;
MS’S feelings for after death, 1, 2;
singing with Jane, 1;
translations from Faust, 1, 2;
posthumous reputation and publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
Procter proposes publishing poetry, 1;
MS proposes selling copyrights of poems, 1;
portrayed in MS’S fiction, 1, 2;
Galignam publish poems, 1, 2, 3;
MS plans life of, 1;
MS rewrites history of marriage to, 1, 2, 3;
MS copies letters, 1, 2;
atheism, 1, 2;
MS prepares four-volume edition of works, 1, 2, 3;
pirated editions of works, 1;
MS’S biographical notes on, 1;
second (one-volume) edition (1839) of works, 1;
MS safeguards problem letters, 1;
MS visits grave, 1;
family connection with Philip Sidney, 1 & n;
portrayed by Severn, 1;
works published in 3–volume edition (1847), 1;
lives and accounts of, 1;
grave in Rome, 1;
ashes of heart buried in St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, 1;
letters and papers deposited and preserved, 1;
newly discovered letters, 1;
MS seeks honour for, 1;
Adonais, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Alastor, 1, 2, 3, 4;
The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley (anthology), 1, 2;
The Cenci, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
; A Defence of Poetry, 1, 2n;
Discourse on the ancient Greeks relative to the subject of love, 1;
Epipsychidion, 1, 2, 3;
Essay on the Devil and Devils, 1;
Essays and Letters (ed. MS), 1;
Hellas, 1, 2;
‘Invocation to Misery’, 1;
Julian and Maddalo, 1;
Lines on the Bay of Lerici’, 1;
‘Lines on Castlereagh’, 1;
The Masque of Anarchy, 1, 2, 3;
‘Mont Blanc’, 1;
‘My thoughts arise and fade in solitude’, 1;
The Necessity of Atheism, 1, 2;
‘Ode to Liberty’, 1;
Peter Bell the Third, 1;
Poetical Works, 1, 2;
Posthumous Poems, 1, 2, 3;
Prometheus Unbound, 1, 2, 3;
Queen Mab, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
‘A Refutation of Deism’, 1;
The Revolt of Islam (earlier ‘Laon and Cythna’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Rosalind and Helen, 1, 2, 3;
‘Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples’, 1, 2;
‘A Summer Evening Churchyard’, 1;
‘To Constantia, Singing’, 1;
‘To the Lord Chancellor’, 1, 2;
‘To Mary’, 1;
The Triumph of Life, 1, 2;
The Witch of Atlas, 1, 2
Shelley, (Sir) Percy Florence (PBS and MS’S son): birth, 1, 2; MS seeks nurse for, 1;
ill health, 1;
childhood in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
MS’S devotion to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
good health, 1, 2;
MS teaches to read and speak English, 1;
Sir Timothy Shelley offers to maintain if removed from MS’S care, 1;
travels back to England with MS, 1, 2;
Sir Timothy grants repayable allowance to, 1;
Sir Timothy meets, 1, 2;
in London, 1, 2;
schooling, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
measles, 1;
in Sompting with MS, 1, 2;
illness at Arundel, 1;
moves to Portman Square, 1;
n Hastings with MS, 1, 2;
Sir Timothy calls on at school, 1;
character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Claire Clairmont’s attachment to, 1;
Godwin’s and MS’S agreement on upbringing, 1;
upbringing, 1, 2;
MS takes to Sunday services, 1;
Sir Timothy sends gold sovereign to, 1;
at Harrow school, 1, 2, 3;
overweight, 1, 2, 3;
interests and activities, 1, 2, 3;
sailing and boating, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
private tutoring in Warwickshire, 1, 2;
sexual development, 1;
prospective entry to university, 1;
visits MS in Brighton, 1;
at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1, 2;
correspondence with mother lost, 1;
MS’S alarm over love-affair, 1;
youthful romance, 1, 2;
praises Leigh Hunt’s play A Legend of Florence, 1;