The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)Jeaffreson, John Cordy
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The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Jeaffreson, John Cordy
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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 Discomfort--Quacks and
Crotchet-Mongers--‘Nakedized Children’--Cornelia Newton--Maimuna and
her Salon--Elephantiasis--‘The Hampstead Stage’--Dinner Party at
Norfolk House--The Duke’s Mediation between the Father and
Son--Failure of the Negotiations--Shelley declines to be ‘a miserable
Slave’--At the Pimlico Lodgings--Correspondence with Mr. Medwin, of
Horsham--Birth of Ianthe Eliza--Shelley as a Father--Conflict of
Evidence respecting his Parental Character--Shelley’s Kindness to
Children--The Poet sets up his Carriage--His Prodigality in
London--His Life at Bracknell--Maimuna at her Country-House--Last
Visits to Field Place--Captain Kennedy’s Reminiscences--Medwin’s
Gossip--The Trip to Scotland--Dissensions and Estrangements--Shelley
and Harriett drifting apart--_Queen Mab’s_ Vegetarian
Note--_Refutation of Deism_.
(8).--LONDON.
If Mr. Westbrook did not change his house in Chapel Street, between 11th
January, 1811, when Shelley ordered a copy of _St. Irvyne_ to be sent to
Harriett at No. 10, and the following October, when he directed Mr. Medwin
to write to him at No. 23 of that thoroughfare, the author of the novel
may be assumed to have given his publisher a wrong address. Anyhow, it is
almost as certain that Mr. Westbrook was living at No. 23 of his street,
in the spring of 1813, as that Shelley put the said address on the
title-page of his private edition of _Queen Mab_, and again in the
concluding imprint of the work (‘Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel
Street, Grosvenor Square, London’), as though the book had been printed by
him at that address. It is almost needless to say there was no
printing-press at 23 Chapel Street, and that Shelley was not a printer in
the sense indicated by the imprint.
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