This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
.
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
149
Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Literary responses
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 195
Friends, Associates
George Gordon sixth Baron Byron
His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse
, and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy
and Mary Shelley
and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont
, with...
Textual Production
Mathilde Blind
MB
delivered to the Shelley Society
a lecture on Percy Bysshe Shelley
at St George's Hall, Langham Place in London.
The lecture drew the attention of the Editor of the Westminster Review.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
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Publishing
Mathilde Blind
MB
's criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(a version of a lecture given the previous year) was published in the Westminster Review.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mathilde Blind
At this date MB
's favourite poets (Shelley
, Byron
, Tennyson
) were all male.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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Textual Production
Mathilde Blind
After this MB
published, in 1872, a selected edition of Shelley
's poems with a memoir, and in 1886 a fourteen-page, privately printed pamphlet entitled Shelley
's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin
's.
Textual Production
Caroline Bowles
CB
's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey
with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley
, and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson, 1910.
68
comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...
Textual Production
Mary Ann Browne
The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years.
RB
's Introductory Essay on Shelley
appeared in Edward Moxon
's edition of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
230
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
vii
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1269 (21 January 1852): 214-5
Cultural formation
Robert Browning
The metaphysical themes of RB
's verse reflect his eclectic engagement with systems of belief: raised by a Nonconformist mother, he became an atheist as a consequence of reading Shelley
Batho, Edith C., and Bonamy Dobree. The Victorians and After: 1830-1914. Cresset Press, 1962.
31
before finally turning to...
Friends, Associates
Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt
February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...
Writing climate item
February 1793
William Godwin
published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
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Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
149
1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...
Building item
1798
Thomas Robert Malthus
anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Graham, Kenneth W. “Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the Divisive 1790s”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 33-46.
37
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
228-9
Shapin, Steven. “Libel on the Human Race”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 11, 5 June 2015, pp. 26-9.
1811: John Frank Newton published The Return to...
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1811
John Frank Newton
published The Return to Nature, or a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen.
Perkins, David. Romanticism and Animal Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...
National or international item
10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
Sample, Ian. “Scientists find lost civilisation”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Mar. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Awfully Present”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 5 Feb. 2015, pp. 27-8.
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9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...
National or international item
9 June 1817
Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth
led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...
National or international item
12 August 1822
The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh
, killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington
's victories and of repressive policies at home.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...
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Texts
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Editor Blind, Mathilde, B. Tauchnitz, 1872.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Adonais. With the types of Didot, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Alastor. S. Hamilton, 1816.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion. C. and J. Ollier, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Editor Shelley, Mary, Edward Moxon, 1840, 2 vols.
Shelley, Mary, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland. T. Hookham and C. and J. Ollier, 1817.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Introductory Note to The Revolt of IslamThe Revolt of Islam.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. J. Munday, 1810.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. Editor Shelley, Mary, John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. C. and J. Ollier, 1820.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. P. B. Shelley, 1813.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. C. and J. Ollier, 1819.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Necessity of Atheism. C and W. Phillips, 1811.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; C. and J. Ollier, 1818.
Plato,. The Symposium on Love. Translator Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Peter Pauper Press.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “When the Lamp is Shattered”. The Literature Network: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Zastrozzi. G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1810.
