Category: Biographies
Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Godwin’s Early Story--From Socinianism to Deism--In the Service of Publishers-- Hack-Work--_Political Justice_--_Caleb Williams_--Temperance and Frugality--Godwin’s two imprudent Marriages--His consequent Impoverishment--His personal Appearance--...
Shelley’s Refusal to join in the Resettlement of A and B--His Places of Residence in Two Years and Eight Months--_A Refutation of Deism_--Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Discord...
20. CHAPTER II.The new Settler in George Street, Blackfriars--Mary’s earlier Story--Woman of Letters--Her Five Years’ Work--Her Attachment to Mr. Johnson--Coteries of Philosophical Radicalism-...
25. CHAPTER VI.William A. Madocks--The Tremadoc Embankment--Shelley’s Zeal for the People of Tremadoc--His big Subscription to the Embankment Fund--Tanyrallt Lodge--Shelley in London--Sussex S...
26. CHAPTER VII.Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Disc...
33. CHAPTER XIV.The Hunts and the Shelleys--Their Intimacy--Pecuniary Difficulties--Dealings with Money-lenders--Leigh Hunt relieves Shelley of £1400--His Testimony to Shelley’s virtuous Manner...
34. CHAPTER XV.The Williamses--Shelley at Ravenna--The Shelley-Claire Scandal--Shelley’s startling Letter to Mrs. Shelley--Examination of the Letter--Its wild Inaccuracies--Mrs. Shelley’s vind...
28. CHAPTER IX.Pecuniary Difficulties and Resources--Choice of a Profession--Shelley walking a Hospital--Dropt by Acquaintances--Birth of Mary Godwin’s first Child--Sir Bysshe Shelley’s Death-...
38. CHAPTER XVIII.A Schedule of significant Matters--Delusion and Semi-Delusion--Certain phenomenal Peculiarities of Shelley’s Mind--The Psychological Problem--The Story that would have opened So...
22. CHAPTER IV.Opium and Hallucination at Keswick--Migration to Ireland--Shelley’s Letters to Miss Hitchener--Curran’s Coldness to the Adventurer--Publication of the _Address to the Irish Peop...
32. CHAPTER XIII.Origin of the Free-Contract Party--Divorce in Catholic England--Nullification of Marriage--Consequences of the Reformation--Edward the Sixth’s Commissioners for the Amendment of...
36. Volume I of Mr. Buxton Forman’s edition of _Shelley’s Works_.)Penitential utterances, such as this pathetic plaint, should of course be construed generously; but Mr. Buxton Forman goes much too far beyond the line, that divides generous co...
21. CHAPTER III.The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmon...
29. CHAPTER X.Shelley’s Arrival at Geneva--Byron and Polidori--At the Sécheron Hotel--Union of the two Parties--Tattle of the Coteries--The Genevese Scandal--Its Fruit in _Manfred_ and _Cain_...
24. letter I entered into details respecting my mode of life, and unfolded toyou the reasons by which I was induced, on being disappointed in Mr. Eton’s house, to seek an inexpensive retirement;’--words that, even in the absence of other evidence to the...
30. CHAPTER XI.Mr. Westbrook’s Petition to the Court of Chancery--Date of Hearing--The _Edinburgh_ Reviewer’s Strange Misrepresentation--Lord Eldon’s Decree--Arrangements for Harriett’s Childr...
31. CHAPTER XII.The Misleading Tablet--House and Garden--Claire at Marlow--Shelley’s Delight in Claire’s Voice--_To Constantia Singing_--Source of the Name--Trips to London--_The Marlow Pamphle...
19. CHAPTER I.Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Godwin’s Early Story--From Socinianism to Deism--In the Service of Publishers--Hack-Work--_Political Justice_--_Caleb Williams_--Temperance and Fr...
35. CHAPTER XVI.Shelley’s Attachment to Jane Williams--Her Womanly Goodness--Her Devotion to her Husband--_The Serpent is shut out from Paradise_--_Essay on the Devil_--Shelley’s Happiness and...
23. CHAPTER V.Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prod...
37. CHAPTER XVII.The Widow in Italy--Her Return to England--Sojourn in the Strand--Life at Kentish Town--Residence at Harrow--She is forbidden to write her Husband’s ‘Life’--‘Moonshine’ and ‘Cel...
8. CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW LOVE 205Shelley’s Refusal to join in the Resettlement of A and B--His Places of Residence in Two Years and Eight Months--_A Refutation of Deism_--Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Discord...
2. CHAPTER II. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 12The new Settler in George Street, Blackfriars--Mary’s earlier Story--Woman of Letters--Her Five Years’ Work--Her Attachment to Mr. Johnson--Coteries of Philosophical Radicalism-...
6. CHAPTER VI. NORTH WALES AND THE SECOND IRISH TRIP 120William A. Madocks--The Tremadoc Embankment--Shelley’s Zeal for the People of Tremadoc--His big Subscription to the Embankment Fund--Tanyrallt Lodge--Shelley in London--Sussex S...
3. CHAPTER III. THE SECOND MRS. WILLIAM GODWIN 60The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmon...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE IRISH CAMPAIGN, AND THE STAY AT NANTGWILLT 78Opium and Hallucination at Keswick--Migration to Ireland-- Shelley’s Letters to Miss Hitchener--Curran’s Coldness to the Adventurer--Publication of the _Address to the Irish Peo...
15. CHAPTER XV. PISAN ACQUAINTANCES 391The Williamses--Shelley at Ravenna--The Shelley-Claire Scandal--Shelley’s startling Letter to Mrs. Shelley-- Examination of the Letter--Its wild Inaccuracies--Mrs. Shelley’s vin...
14. CHAPTER XIV. FROM MARLOW TO ITALY 351The Hunts and the Shelleys--Their Intimacy--Pecuniary Difficulties--Dealings with Money-lenders--Leigh Hunt relieves Shelley of £1400--His Testimony to Shelley’s virtuous Manner...
16. CHAPTER XVI. CLOSING SCENES 423Shelley’s Attachment to Jane Williams--Her Womanly Goodness-- Her Devotion to her Husband--_The Serpent is shut out from Paradise_--_Essay on the Devil_--Shelley’s Happiness and...
7. CHAPTER VII. LONDON AND BRACKNELL 164Imprint of _Queen Mab_--The Poem’s Notes--The Author’s Views touching Marriage--Places of Abode in London--Presentation Copies--Shelley ‘a Lion’--Half-Moon Street--Diet and Disc...
5. CHAPTER V. NORTH DEVON 100Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s Reason for not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley prod...
13. CHAPTER XIII. LAON AND CYTHNA 329Origin of the Free-Contract Party--Divorce in Catholic England--Nullification of Marriage--Consequences of the Reformation--Edward the Sixth’s Commissioners for the Amendment of...
10. CHAPTER X. THE GENEVESE EPISODE 287Shelley’s Arrival at Geneva--Byron and Polidori--At the Sécheron Hotel--Union of the two Parties--Tattle of the Coteries--The Genevese Scandal--Its Fruit in _Manfred_ and _Cain_...
9. CHAPTER IX. BISHOPGATE 257Pecuniary Difficulties and Resources--Choice of a Profession-- Shelley walking a Hospital--Dropt by Acquaintances--Birth of Mary Godwin’s first Child--Sir Bysshe Shelley’s Death...
12. CHAPTER XII. GREAT MARLOW 317The Misleading Tablet--House and Garden--Claire at Marlow-- Shelley’s Delight in Claire’s Voice--_To Constantia Singing_--Source of the Name--Trips to London--_The Marlow Pamphl...
18. CHAPTER XVIII. LAST WORDS 458A Schedule of Significant Matters--Delusion and Semi-delusion--Certain phenomenal Peculiarities of Shelley’s Mind--The Psychological Problem--The Story that would have opened So...
1. CHAPTER I. WILLIAM GODWIN 1Mr. Kegan Paul’s Inaccuracies--Godwin’s Early Story--From Socinianism to Deism--In the Service of Publishers-- Hack-Work--_Political Justice_--_Caleb Williams_--Temperance and F...
11. CHAPTER XI. THE CHANCERY SUIT 304Mr. Westbrook’s Petition to the Court of Chancery--Date of Hearing--The _Edinburgh_ Reviewer’s Strange Misrepresentation--Lord Eldon’s Decree--Arrangements for Harriett’s Childr...
17. CHAPTER XVII. SHELLEY’S WIDOW AND HER SISTER-BY-AFFINITY 453The Widow in Italy--Her Return to England--Sojourn in the Strand--Life at Kentish Town--Residence at Harrow--She is forbidden to write her Husband’s ‘Life’--‘Moonshine’ and ‘Cel...