The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Shelley's Childhood 27

The Poet's Father--Shelley's Birth and Birth-Chamber--Miss Hellen Shelley's Recollections--The Child-Shelley's Pleasant Fiction--His Aspect at Tender Age--His Description of his own Nose--The Indian-Ink Sketch--Miss Curran's 'Daub'-- Williams's Water-Colour Drawing--Clint's Composition-- Engravings of 'The Daub' and 'The Composition'--The Poet's Likeness in Marble--Shelley and Byron--Peacock and Hogg on Shelley's Facial Beauty--The Colnaghi Engraving.

The Brentford Schoolboy 43

Dr. Greenlaw's Character--Quality of his School--Medwin's Anecdotes to the Doctor's Discredit--Mr. Gellibrand's Recollections of the Brentford Shelley--The Bullies of the Brentford Playground--Shelley's Character at the School--His Disposition to Somnambulism--His Delight in Novels--His Wretchedness at School--Shelleyan Egotism--Byronic Egotism--Byron's Influence on Shelley--Enduring Influence of Novels on Shelley's Mind--Stories of Boating--Easter Holidays in Wiltshire--'Essay on Friendship'--Its Biographical Value.

The Eton Schoolboy 69

First year at Eton--Creation of the Castle-Goring Baronetcy-- Sir Bysshe Shelley's Last Will--Timothy Shelley's Children-- Miss Hellen Shelley's Recollections--The Etonian at Home-- The Big Tortoise--The Great Snake--Dr. Keate--Mr. Packe at fault--Walter Halliday--Mr. Hexter--Mr. Bethell--Fagging--Mad Shelley--'Old Walker'--Enthusiasm for Natural Science--The Rebel of the School--Lord High Atheist--Dr. Lind's Pernicious Influence on Shelley--Poetical Fictions about Dr. Lind-- Shelley's Illness at Field Place--His Monstrous Hallucination touching his Father--John Shelley the Lunatic--_Zastrozzi_-- Premature Withdrawal from Eton.

CHAPTER VI. ZASTROZZI; A ROMANCE. BY P. B. S. 110

Literary Ambition--Biographical Value of _Zastrozzi_--The Etonian Shelley's Disesteem of Marriage--Review of the Romance--Julia and Matilda--Conceits of the Romance reproduced in _Laon and Cythna_--Egotisms of the Prose Tale and the Poem--The Original of Count Verezzi and Laon.

CHAPTER VII. BETWEEN ETON AND OXFORD 123

Literary Interests and Enterprise--A.M. Oxon. Letter-- Shelley's Hunger for Publisher's Money--Winter 1809-10-- Nightmare--_The Wandering Jew_--Medwin in Lincoln's Inn Fields--The Fragment of Ahasuerus--Its Influence on Byron and Shelley--Matriculation at Oxford--Shelley at the Bodleian-- John Ballantyne and Co.--Shelley in Pall Mall--Stockdale's Scandalous _Budget_--_Victor and Cazire_--Their Original Poetry--Who was Cazire?--Felicia Dorothea Browne-- Illumination of Young Ladies--Harriett Grove--The Groves and Shelleys in London--Shelley's Interest in Harriett Grove.

CHAPTER VIII. ST. IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN: A ROMANCE. BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 153

Venal Villains--'Jock' instructed to 'Pouch' them--At Work on another Novel--The Dog of a Publisher--Devil of a Price--_St. Irvyne_--Irving's Hill--Review of _St. Irvyne_--Wolfstein the Magnanimous--Megalena de Metastasio--Olympia della Anzasca-- Eloise St. Irvyne--The Virtuous Fitzeustace--Ginotti's Doom-- The Oxonian Shelley's Repugnance to Marriage--His Commendation of Free Love--Parallel Passages of Zastrozzi and _St. Irvyne_--The Verses of St. Irvyne.

CHAPTER IX. MR. DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY v. THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG 168

Shelley's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's First Arrival at Oxford--Lord Grenville's Election--Mr. Denis Florence MacCarthy's Blunders--Hogg's 'New Monthly' Papers on Shelley at Oxford--Mrs. Shelley's Reason for not Writing her Husband's 'Life'--Peacock's Reason for not Writing it--Leigh Hunt's Reason for not Writing it--Hogg undertakes the Task--Hogg's Two Volumes--Their Merits and Faults--Hogg dismissed by Field Place--His Mistakes and Misrepresentations--Some of his Misrepresentations adopted by Field Place.

CHAPTER X. AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810 179

Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms-- Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley-- His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term.

CHAPTER XI. THE CHRISTMAS VACATION OF 1810-11 210

Presentation copies of _St. Irvyne_--Shelley resorts to Deception--Shelley in Disgrace at Field Place--Harriett Grove's Dismissal of her Suitor--The Squire's Anger--Mrs. Shelley's Alarm for her Girls--Shelley's Troubles--His Rage against Intolerance--His Wild Letters to Hogg--'Married to a Clod'--Stockdale's Design--His Intercourse with Shelley's Father--More Negotiations with the Pall-Mall Publisher-- Shelley a Deist--Controversial Correspondence--Shelley's Attempt to enlighten his Father--His Passage from Deism to Atheism--The Squire relents to his Son--Hogg invited to Field Place--Stockdale's Disappointment--Stockdale's Character--His Scandalous Budget.

CHAPTER XII. MR. MACCARTHY'S DISCOVERIES TOUCHING THE OXONIAN SHELLEY 234

_A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things_--Evidence that the Poem was Published--Reasons for Thinking it may never have been Published--Reasons for Thinking that, if the Poem was Published, it was promptly Suppressed--Did Shelley contribute Prose and Poetry to the Oxford Herald?--Spurious Letter to the Editor of the _Statesman_--Shelley's First Letter to Leigh Hunt--His way of Introducing himself to Strangers--Did he at the Same Moment Think Well and Ill of his Father?--Miss Janetta Phillips's Poems--E. & W. Phillips, the Worthing Printers.

CHAPTER XIII. SHELLEY'S SECOND RESIDENCE-TERM AT OXFORD 251

Harriett Westbrook--Her Character and Beauty--How Shelley came to care for her--Her Subscription for Janetta Phillips's Poems--Shelley's first Visit to Harriett's Home--His Intention to compete for 'the Newdigate'--Thornton Hunt's scandalous Suggestion--Obligations of the Oxford Undergraduate--Mary Wollstonecraft on the Guinea Forfeit-- Shelley's False Declaration--His numerous Untruths--_The Necessity of Atheism_--Was it a Squib?--Lady Shelley's Inaccuracies--Mr. Garnett's Misdescription of the Tract--His Misrepresentation of Hogg--The Little Syllabus printed at Worthing--More Untruths by Shelley--The Tract offered for Sale in Oxford--Shelley called before 'the Dons'--His Expulsion from University College--Hogg's Impudence and Craft--His Misrepresentations--Shelley and Hogg leave Oxford.

CHAPTER XIV. THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1811 292

Arrival in Town--The Poland-Street Exiles--The Squire's Correspondence with Hogg's Father--His gentle Treatment of Shelley--Dinner at Miller's Hotel--Hogg's Testimony to the Squire's Worth--Shelley's Nicknames for his Father--Shelley rejects his Father's Terms--Shelley offers Terms to his Father--The Squire's Indignation--He Relents--He makes Shelley a Liberal Allowance--Lady Shelley's Misrepresentations--The Exiles about Town--The Separation of 'The Inseparables'--Shelley's Intimacy with the Westbrooks Shelley's Intimacy with the Westbrooks--John Westbrook's Calling and Character--Taking the Sacrament--Harriett Westbrook's Conversion to Atheism--Her Disgrace at School-- Shelley's Measures for illuminating his Sister Hellen-- Tourists in Wales--The Change in Elizabeth Shelley-- Arrangements for a Clandestine Meeting--Mrs. Shelley's Treatment of her Son--Captain Pilford's Kindness to his Nephew--Harriett Westbrook's Appeal to Shelley--Her Decision and Indecision--From Wales to London--Hogg's Influence--The Elopement to Scotland--Hogg starts for Edinburgh.

Motive and Influences 330

The fatal Marriage--Was Shelley trapt into it?--Mr. Garnett's Assurances--The Fiction about Claire--Lady Shelley's Use of Hogg's Evidences--The Prenuptial Intercourse--Was it slight?--Shelley's Opportunities for knowing all about Harriett--His Use and Abuse of those Opportunities--Mr. Westbrook's Action towards Shelley--His Endeavour to preserve Harriett from Shelley--Eliza Westbrook's part in making up the Match--The Tool's Reward--The Etonian Free Lover--The Social Condition of the Westbrooks and Godwins--Harriett Westbrook's Beauty--Her Education--Her Knowledge of French-- Her quick Progress in Latin--What Wonder that Shelley fell in love with her?

CHAPTER XVI. EDINBURGH, YORK, AND KESWICK 338

The Scotch Marriage--The Trio at Edinburgh--'Wha's the Deil?'--Posting from Edinburgh to York--Dingy Lodgings and Dingy Milliners--Shelley's run South--Did Harriett accompany him?--The Squire stops the Supplies--The Earl's Description of Harriett Westbrook--The Squire's Anger at the _Mésalliance_--The Course Shelley could not take--Eliza Westbrook in Possession--The Ouse at full Flood--One too many--Designs on Greystoke Castle--Shelley's Appeal to the Duke of Norfolk--The Codicil to Sir Bysshe's Will--The Flight to Richmond--Miss Westbrook strikes her Enemy--The Trio at Keswick--Shelley's affectionate Letters from Keswick to Hogg at York--John Westbrook's Daughters at Greystoke Castle-- Ducal Benignity and Policy--The Calverts of Greta Bank-- Shelley's Means during his first Marriage--How to live on Three Hundred a-year--How not to live on Four Hundred a-year.

Greta Bank 380

Shelley wishes for a Sussex Cottage--His Friends at Keswick-- Southey at Home--Poet and Schoolmaster--Southey's Way of handling Shelley--Shelley caught Napping--Mrs. Southey's Tea-cakes--Eggs and Bacon on Hounslow Heath--At Home with the Calverts--Shelley's remarkable Communications to Southey--His Story of Harriett's Expulsion from School--The Story to Hogg's Infamy--Mr. MacCarthy on the _Posthumous Fragments_-- Miss Westbrook's transient Contentment--Shelley's For Ever and _Never_--His Interest in Ireland--Burning Questions-- Southey and Shelley at War--The _Address to the Irish People_--Letters to Skinner Street--Godwin tickled by them-- Shelleyan Conceptions and Misconceptions--Shelley forgets all about Dr. Lind--Preparations for the Irish Campaign--Letter of Introduction to Curran--Project for a happy Meeting in Wales--Miss Eliza Hitchener--Bright Angel and Brown Demon-- Shelley's Delight in her--His Abhorrence of her.

CHAPTER XVIII. SHELLEY'S QUARREL WITH HOGG 407

Shelley's Suspicion of Hogg--His Conviction of Hogg's Guilt-- Did Hogg make the Attempt?--The Manipulated Letter--Hogg's Object in publishing it--His Purpose in altering it--The Great Discovery--Evidence of Hogg's Guilt--Sources of the Evidence--Shelley's Correspondence with Miss Hitchener--His Letters from Keswick to Hogg--Their vehement Affectionateness--Eliza Westbrook in Office--Shelley under Training--Sisters in Council--Shelley's Conferences with Harriett--Proofs of Hogg's Innocence--_Primâ Facie_ Improbability--Why Hogg was not charged at York--His Arraignment at Keswick--Condemned in his Absence--The Reconciliation--Divine Forgiveness--Hogg's Restoration to Intimacy with Harriett--Shelley's subsequent Intimacy with Hogg--Hogg's Intimacy with Mary Godwin--Shelley's Acknowledgment of Delusion--He begs Pardon of Hogg--Hogg's Denials of the Charge--Hypothetical Letters--Concluding Estimate of Harriett's Evidence--If Hogg should be proved Guilty--Consequences to Shelley's Reputation.