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[6 Apr 1819.] … all goes on as badly there [in Venice] with the noble poet as ever I fear — he is a lost man if he does not escape soon.
The Letters of Mary W. Shelley. ed. Frederick L. Jones (Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, 1944) I , 67, 70, 140, 208, 229, and II, 61; Mary Shelley’s Journal, ed. Frederick L. Jones (Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947) p. 184.
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Mary Shelley (1797–1851), daughter of William Godwin and second wife of Shelley, left England with Shelley in 1814 and married him in 1816 after his first wife had committed suicide. She published several novels, including Frankenstein (1818) (see p. 50) and the autobiographical Lodore (1835), which includes a portrait of Byron. In spite of the tone of the above extracts, there is evidence that she was strongly attracted to Byron. Among various studies of Mary Shelley are those by R. Glynn Grylls (1938), Muriel Spark (1951), Janet Harris (1979) and Bonnie R. Neumann (1979). See also E. J. Lovell Jr, ‘Byron and Mary Shelley’, Keats — Shelley Journal, II (1953) 35–49.
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Shelley, M. (1985). ‘A Lost Man’. In: Page, N. (eds) Byron. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06632-2_25
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