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    Shelley: The Pursuit

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      Literary Chronicle, 660

      Literary Gazette, 595, 660, 668

      Literary Miscellany, Peacock’s article on decline of poetry in, 641–2; and Shelley’s article in reply (unpublished), 642–6

      Literary Panorama, 34 n.

      The Literary Pocket-Book, ed. Leigh Hunt, 568

      Liverpool, Lord, 9, 97 n., 363, 386, 476, 531, 532, 552; Cato Street Conspiracy and, 579–80

      Livorno (Leghorn), 465, 571, 572, 578, 622, 725, 728, 729, 730; Casa Ricci (Gisborne’s house) in, 423; Shelleys’ stay in (1818), 423–6, 429, 444, 446, 493, 513; and at Villa Valsovano, Monte Nero (1819), 518, 519–41 passim, 581; and at Casa Ricci (1820), 596–601 passim; Claire’s vacations in (1820 and 1821), 609, 662, 663, 677–8; Shelley buys sailing boat in, 646–7; Byron moves to, 710, 712, 713

      Livy, 463, 487

      Llangollen, 161, 163

      Locke, John, 48, 54, 71, 76, 298 n., 307, 577

      Lockhart, John Gibson, 404–5 & n., 568

      Lodore, Mary Shelley, xi, 21–2

      London, Shelley’s stay in: at 15 Poland Street (1811), 57–70 passim, 220, 637; 1812: at Lewis’s Hotel, St James’s St, 167–76; 1813: at Cook’s Hotel, Albemarle St, 200–16; and extra lodgings in Half Moon St, 213–16; 1814–15: 250–85: at 56 Margaret St, 250–4; at 5 Church Terrace (Kentish Town), 254–69; at 2 Nelson Square, Blackfriars Rd, 269–76; in Hans Place, 276–80; at 13 Arabella Rd, Pimlico, 280–2; at 26 Marchmont St, Bloomsbury, 282–5; in 1816: in Norfolk St, 314–18; at 26 Marchmont St, 319–20, 346; at Hunts’ house in Vale of Health, 351, 359–63; in 1817: at Hunts’ house in Lisson Grove, 377–80; at 19 Mabledon Place, 383–9; in 1818: at 119 Great Russell St, 407–12

      London Chronicle, attack on Shelley in, 342, 404

      London Magazine, 275; Mary’s article ‘On Ghosts’ in, 344, 448; review of The Cenci in, 595

      London Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review, 595

      Longdill, P. W. (Shelley’s solicitor), 321, 343, 346 n., 377, 378, 379, 550, 648, 711; settlement of Shelley estate negotiated by, 281, 282, 283, 313; and Harriet’s suicide, 352, 353

      Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, Leigh Hunt, 733

      Lovell, Robert, 100

      Love’s Coming-of-Age, Edward Carpenter, 633 n.

      Lovett, William, 151 & n.

      Lucan, 290, 658

      Lucca (Tuscany), 429, 430, 443, 444, 602, 604, 651, 670, 687–8

      Lucerne, Lake, 236, 237, 241; Shelley’s stay at Brunnen (1814), 242–3

      Lucretius, 26, 29, 200, 201, 202, 206, 266 n. 298 n., 311, 403, 434, 485, 494, 522, 598

      Luddism, 96, 97 n., 98, 100, 180, 185, 384

      Ludlam, Isaac, trial and execution of (1817), 384–6

      Lycidas, John Milton, 657

      Lynmouth, Shelley’s stay in, 146–62, 197; Claire Clairmont goes to, 282–3, 285

      Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth, 8

      The Lyrics of Shelley, ed. Judith Chernaik, 371 n.

      MacFarlane, Charles, 478–9

      McMillan (printer), 389

      ‘The Mad Mother’, William Wordsworth, 257

      Madocks, William Alexander, 164–5, 166, 172, 174 n., 178, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 190, 196, 214

      The Magic Plant, Carl Grabo, xii

      Magnus, Albertus, 332

      Malthus, Thomas, 8

      Manchester Observer, 530, 541

      Mandeville, William Godwin, 168, 390

      Manicheans, 243 n.

      Manning, Thomas, 125, 746

      Manso, Giovanni, 417

      Marcus Aurelius, 488

      Marlow, 286, 290, 297, 361, 575; Shelley’s visits to Peacock in, 346, 350, 351, 357–8, 363–6; and Shelley’s home at Albion House (1817), 367–408, 524

      Marshall, Mrs Julian, 666 n.

      Marx, Karl, 584

      Mary, a Fiction, Mary Wollstonecraft, 239

      Mary Shelley’s Journal, xii, 737, 754; missing pages (January — May 1815), 276; (December and January 1818), 462–3; (June — August 1819), 518

      Masi, Sergeant-Major, violent incident with Byron shooting party, 706–8, 710, 715

      Mason, Mrs (Countess Margaret Lady Mountcashell) and family, 572, 629, 659; biographical details, 575–6; and friendship with Shelleys, 541–2, 575, 576–7, 579–80, 600; ‘The Sensitive Plant’ and, 582; Claire’s departure from Shelley household and, 600, 601, 612, 615; and Claire’s stay with, 608, 609, 610, 612, 622

      Mason, Laurette, 576

      Mason, Nerina, 576

      Mathilda, Mary Shelley, 447, 526, 663

      Matthews, G. M., 724 n.

      Maurois, André, ix, 21 n.

      Mavrocordato, Prince Alexander, 624, 630, 641, 646, 650, 651, 652, 681; his departure to join in Greek struggle, 655, 677; Hellas dedicated to, 678

      ‘Mazeppa’, Byron, 447

      Meadows family (in Florence), 571, 573

      Medical Extracts, 153

      Medici family, 444, 584, 602

      The Medusa, Leonardo da Vinci, 479

      Medwin, T.C., 4; Shelley seeks financial help from 77, 78, 131, 135, 136, 143

      Medwin, Tom, 11 & n., 14, 18, 28, 29, 30, 56, 61, 87–8, 100 n., 196, 215, 420, 474 n, 511, 613, 687; on Shelley’s schooldays at Syon House, 4, 5, 6; and literary collaboration with Shelley, 31; on Shelley’s relationship with father, 35–6; and on expulsion from Oxford, 54, 55; and on Shelley’s dreams, 65–6; and on Shelley’s friendship with Harriet, 66; favours reconciliation between Shelley and father, 211–12; invited to Italy, 572–3, 581, 601; returns to Bagni di Pisa with Shelley, 616; and stays in Pisa, 617; his Sketches in Hindoostan published, 617; on Shelley’s malady, 617–18; and Shelley’s scheme to visit Near East, 619; and Shelley’s translation, 620; and reading of poetry, 621; his impression of Claire, 622; and of Pacchiani, 623; and of Emilia Viviani, 625; his experiments in mesmerism, 626–7, 635; and Williamses’ arrival in Pisa, 640; leaves Pisa, 640; joins Byron’s shooting expeditions, 686, 690; on Shelley’s literary judgement, 689; and on dinner-table conversation, 689

      Melincourt, T. L. Peacock, 311

      The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, T. J. Hogg, 221, 271–2

      Mengaldo, Chevalier, 447–8

      Merle, Joseph, 56, 58, 69–70, 111, 175

      Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, Mesmerism, 626–7 & n., 635, 701

      Mexico, revolution in (1812), 117

      Michelangelo Buonarroti, 479

      Milan, Shelleys’ stay in (1818), 416–22, 429

      Milanie, Mlle (ballerina), 408, 409

      Milbanke, Anne Isabella (Lady Byron), 316

      Mill, James, 586 n.

      Mill, John Stuart, 295 n., 554, 557 n., 586 n., 633 n., 733

      Millais, Sir John, 733

      Miller’s Hotel, London, meeting between Shelley and father in (1811), 57–8

      Milltown, First Earl of, 179 n.

      Milly Shields (Shelleys’ servant), 412, 421, 422, 426, 458, 465, 481, 522, 575

      Milnes, Richard Monckton, 38

      Milton, John, 181, 201, 208, 276, 302, 326, 332, 425, 434, 494, 501 n., 644, 657

      Minerva Press, 14, 31, 37

      Missolonghi, Byron’s death in, 731

      The Monk, M. G. Lewis, 14, 274

      Monboddo, Lord, 182, 202

      Montagu, Basil, 94 n, 359, 356

      Montalègre (Geneva), Shelleys’ stay at Maison Chappuis in (1816), 326, 327–45

      Monte Nero (Livorno), Shelleys’ stay in Villa Valsovano in, 518, 519–41, 581

      Monte Pisano (Tuscany), 602, 609, 611, 614, 651

      Monte San Pelegrino, Shelley’s pilgrimage to, 604

      Montgomery, James, 101

      Monthly Magazine, 403

      Monthly Review, review of Alastor in, 309

      Moore, Tom, x, 335, 340, 380, 390, 391, 409, 509, 657, 711; Peter Bell the Third dedicated to, 551

      Morgan, Lady, 70

      Morelos, José, 117

      Morning Chronicle, 51, 389, 661

      Morpha Lodge, Tremadoc, 177, 180

      Morris, William, 402

      Moschus, Shelley’s translations of, 307
    , 308 n, 656

      Mountcashell family, 124 n.; see also Mason, Mrs

      Mount Street Coffee House, London, 66

      Moxon (publisher), 210, 431, 732

      Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 408

      Munday’s bookshop, see Slatter and Munday

      Murray, John (publisher), 308, 324, 330, 335, 337, 345, 346, 420 n., 666 n., 689; publication of Childe Harold by, 346, 348; and Frankenstein rejected by, 371, 376

      The Mutiny Within, James Reiger, 261 n.

      Nantgwillt, Radnorshire, 161, 219; Shelley’s stay in (1812), 134–45, 150; and his plans to lease (June 1814), 229–30

      Naples, 421, 457, 458, 510, 514, 517, 578, 609; Shelleys’ stay at 250 Riviera di Chiaia in (1818), 461–79, 481, 482–3, 493, 505 n.; and Keats arrival, 614

      Napoleon Bonaparte, 290, 448

      Napoleonic Wars, 52, 96, 137, 139, 165, 530, 576, 587

      Nash, Andrew and George (money-lenders), 226, 229, 232, 236, 238 n., 284–5 n.

      Near East, Shelley’s plan to visit, 613, 619

      Neufchatel, 237, 240–1, 250

      New Harmony egalitarian communities, Indiana, 150 n.

      New Monthly Magazine, T. J. Hogg’s ‘Reminiscences of Shelley at Oxford’ in, 41 n., 731; and review of The Cenci, 595

      New Testament, 571, 584

      Newton, Dr John Frank and Mrs, 174–5, 200, 214, 215, 216–17, 222, 223, 224, 250

      The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 35

      Nightmare Abbey, T. L. Peacock, 374–6, 429, 522, 527

      The Niobe statue, 566

      Norfolk, Duke of, 10, 43, 89, 97, 123, 124, 165, 184, 216, 415; Shelley visits Greystoke, 95, 109; and negotiates reconciliation between Shelley and father, 212

      North Wales Gazette, 165, 166, 187

      Nouvelle Héloise, J-J. Rousseau, 334, 336

      Novello, Vincent, 369

      Nugent, Catherine, 134, 156, 157, 222; Shelley’s friendship with, 128–9, 131–2; and correspondence with Harriet, 129 &n., 133, 147, 148, 176, 183, 184, 200–1, 216, 219, 222, 238, 239, 251, 273–4, 279

      Observations on Man, David Hartley, 153, 295 n.

      O’Connell, Daniel, 125

      O’Connor, Arthur, 123, 124

      Odier, Dr and Mme, 328

      Odysseus (Greek brigand), 731

      Odyssey, Homer, 220

      Oedipus, Sophocles, 445

      Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, 461

      The Old Man of the Mountain, Sales de Lisle, 243 n.

      Old St Pancras Churchyard, Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave in, 230, 232 & n.

      Oliver affair (government spy), 384 & n., 385 n., 386

      Ollier, Charles (publisher), 359, 367, 369, 377, 383, 457, 479, 538, 551, 556, 608, 610, 613, 641, 642–3; Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote . . . published by, 364–5; rejects Frankenstein, 376; publishes On the Death of Princess Charlotte, 385, 386, 388; and The Revolt of Islam, 389, 390–1, 392, 402, 403, 413; and Prometheus Unbound, 509–10 & n., 540, 595; Shelley’s letters from Italy to, 525, 529–30, 545, 551, 568, 569, 580; sends Shelley 1st edition of Rosalind and Helen and Endymion, 529; ‘Ode to Liberty’ sent to, 583; refuses to publish Shelley’s political works, 594; and brings out The Cenci, 595; publishes Medwin’s Sketches in Hindoostan, 617; and Epipsychidion, 634, 639; and ‘A Defense of Poetry’, 646; and Adonais, 655–6; pirate edition of Queen Mab and, 660–1; Shelley’s letter about Valperga to, 675–6; and publication of Hellas, 678, 681, 711; Shelley tries to make break with, 697–8

      O’Neil (actress), 513, 525

      ‘On Ghosts’, Mary Shelley, 344

      On National Education, George Ensor, 71–2

      On Nervous Diseases, Thomas Trotter, 182, 202

      ‘On Paradox and Commonplace’, William Hazlitt, 45 n.

      On the Nature of Things, Lucretius, 202

      Opie, Amelia, 76

      Opie, John, 447

      Orange, Ursula, 474 n.

      Ovid, 184

      Owen, Robert, Owenites, 150, 179, 208, 209, 366

      Oxford (University College), Shelley at (1810–11), 11, 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 35–56, 98, 99, 104, 225, 403, 514, 543, 637–8, 731; Shelley revisits (1815), 291, 296

      Oxford University and City Herald, 51, 52, 54, 371 n.

      Pacchiani, Francesco, his friendship with Shelleys, 622–3, 624, 628, 640

      Padilla, Count John Taaffe, 624

      Padua, 440, 441, 442, 443, 445, 446, 462, 469, 482

      Paestum, Etruscan remains at, 278

      Paine, Tom, 7, 40, 43, 106, 111, 119, 122, 123, 124, 138, 139, 144, 154, 202, 274, 385, 556, 557, 660

      Palatine Hill, Rome, 485, 488

      Palazzo Cenci, Rome, 513, 515–16

      Palazzo Lanfranchi, see Pisa

      Palazzo Mocenigo, see Venice

      Palazzo Verospi, see Rome

      Pallerini, Maria, 416

      Palmyra, T. L. Peacock, 173

      Pantisocratic plan (Southey — Coleridge), Paracelsus, 332

      Paradise Lost, John Milton, 139, 332, 405, 509

      Paradise Regained, John Milton, 425

      II Paradiso, Dante, 418

      Paris, Shelley’s visits to, 236–7, 250, 322

      Parry-Jones, Corbet, 564–5, 568

      Pascoud, translation of Political Justice by, 348

      Pausanias, 435

      Peacock, Thomas Love, x, 14, 20, 25, 54, 65 n., 79, 83, 200, 233, 241, 251, 258, 261, 286, 290, 412, 413, 551, 554, 561, 597, 732; on Harriet, 68; his friendship with Shelley, 173–4, 214, 216, 217–18, 221, 264, 265; crotchet novels of, 174 & n.; his hallucination theory of shooting incident at Tremadoc, 187, 190, 192, 193, 194, 195–6; on Eliza Ianthe, 215–16; his friendship with Harriet, 217, 222, 234, 250; and description of Bracknell people, 217; acts as mediator between Shelley and Harriet, 219; and accompanies Shelleys to Edinburgh, 219–23; returns to Bracknell with Harriet and Eliza, 223; condemns Shelley’s elopement with Mary, 236, 238; Shelley’s financial support for, 238 n.; renews friendship with Shelley, 254–5, 263; Marianne St Croix becomes his mistress, 265; Shelley hides from bailiffs in house of, 265–6; and negotiates loan of money, 266, 269; imprisoned for debts, 277; on Shelley’s plan to enter Church, 287–8; boating expedition organized by, 291–4; and frequent visitor at Bishops-gate, 297; completes Headlong Hall and begins Melincourt, 311; on Shelley’s reasons for leaving England, 321; Shelley’s letter from Switzerland to, 323, 324, 334, 336–7, 337, 338, 339–43; Shelley visits him in Marlow, 346, 350, 351, 357–8, 363–4; and Shelley’s Will, 346 n.; at Albion House, 368, 370, 371, 405; bases Nightmare Abbey on Shelley household, 374–6, 429; his influence on Shelley, 382; Hogg spends Xmas 1817 with, 389; in London with Shelleys, 408, 410; Shelley’s letter from Italy to, 416, 421, 422: from Bagni di Lucca, 427, 428, 429, 431 — from Este, 443–4; from Venice (on Italian women), 448–9; from Ferrara, 458–9; from Naples, 463, 464, 475, 476, 477–8, 479; from Rome, 486–7, 489–90, 510, 518; and from Monte Nero, 519, 522–3, 527, 528, 529, 531, 532, 537; sends Shelley box of books, 522; and Shelley’s appreciation of Nightmare Abbey, 522; obtains good position in India House, 523; MS and Leghorn edition of The Cenci sent to, 525, 528, 539; sends Shelley newspapers about Peterloo, 529; his doubts about The Cenci, 545; and Shelley’s letters from Pisa to, 580, 592, 619, 691; his unexpected marriage, 585–6; his article on decline of English Poetry, 641–2; and Shelley’s reply, 642–6; Shelley’s letter from Ravenna to, 665; and his reaction to Shelley’s Eastern scheme, 683; his later career (after Shelley’s death), 733; and publishes ‘Memoirs’ of Shelley, 733

      Peacock, Mrs (mother of Thomas Love), 267

      Pelleschi, Gaspero, 565, 571

      Pentridge Revolution (1817), 137, 171 n.; trial and execution of leaders of, 384–6, 387

      Percival, Spencer, 135, 137; impeachment of, 165

      Pereira, Joachim Baptista, 222, 408

      Perkins, Erasmus, 210

      The Persians, Aeschylus, 677

      ‘Peter Bell, a Lyrical Ballad’, J. M. Reynolds, 547, 551

      ‘Peter Bell, a Tale’, William Wordsworth, 547, 551, 621

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    sp; Peterloo (1819), 384–5 n., 529–31, 537, 539, 541, 543, 544, 556, 562, 567, 580, 590, 591

      Petrarch, 443, 630

      Petronius, 274

      Phaedo, Plato, Shelley’s translation of, 432

      Phaedrus, Plato, 26

      Philhellenism, 678

      Phillips (Worthing printer), 49, 50

      Philoctetes, Sophocles, 424 & n.

      Pike (money-lender), 266, 274

      Pilfold, Captain, 61, 62, 63, 70, 71, 81, 87, 88, 136, 140, 141, 142–3, 321, 379

      Pilfold, Elizabeth see Shelley, Elizabeth (mother)

      Pisa, 421, 528, 546, 568, 730; Shelley’s stay at Albergo delle Tre Donzelle (1818), 422 & n.; and overnight stay in 1819, 541–2; and in 1820; at the Tre Donzelle, 373–4; and at the Casa Frassi, 574–96 passim; Masons’ house (Casa Silva) in, 541–2, 574, 576, 577, 579–80, 581, 596, 600, 648, 651; architectural style in, 574; Claire stays with Masons (1820–21), 608, 609, 610, 612, 622, 662, 716; Shelleys’ apartment at the Casa Galetti (1820–1), 617–41 passim; and at Casa Aulla (1821), 641–50 passim; Byron’s move to, 670, 671, 676; and Shelley negotiates lease of Palazzo Lanfranchi, 673; and Byron’s stay in, 682, 685–712 passim; Shelleys’ apartment at Tre Palazzi di Chiesa (1821–22), 681–711 passim; and Shelley’s last visit to, 728–9; see also Bagni di Pisa

      ‘Pisan Poems’, 620, 628, 683–4, 719

      Pitt, William, 9, 52, 123, 154

      Pittman, Major, 626

      Place, Francis, 87, 226, 349, 363, 366

      Plantis, Louisa du, 571

      Plantis, Mme Merveilleux du, 537, 538, 542, 565

      Plantis, Zoïde du, 537, 542, 571, 573

      Plato, 26, 182, 298 n., 305, 360, 426, 429–38, 448, 522, 542, 619, 682, 718

      Pliny, 26, 30, 201

      Plutarch, 181, 202, 220, 332

      Poe, Edgar Allen, 221 n.

      Poland Street, see London

      Pole, Wellesley, 137

      Polidori, Dr William, 319, 334, 344, 345, 448 n.; his notes on stay in Geneva with Byron and Shelley, 324–30

      The Political House That Jack Built, William Hone, 539

      Political Justice, William Godwin, 26, 98, 103, 104, 105, 106, 122, 152, 168, 255, 348, 389

      Political Register, 8, 43, 119, 147, 349, 365, 522, 530 n., 556

      Polly Rose (Marlow village girl), 373–4

      Pompeii, 463, 470, 477, 479

      Pontarlier, 239–40

      Pool, Lord and Lady, 11

      Pope, Alexander, 552, 554

      Pope, Dr, 297

      Portovenere, 696, 712, 714, 715

     


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