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Shelley Memorials, Edited By Lady Shelle...
ghost of old companionship , some memory of that which had vanished for lier ever greatest in this life joy , clung and her for wildest a loiig w sorrow _^ hile to . the She countr very y speedil which y , had however witnessed , left
the Bay of Spezia , and took up her residence at Pisa . * * _tP * _^ _P Jr " Mrs . Shelley and her child arrived in England early in the autumn of
country 1823 . After struck an her absence with a in painful Italy sense of nearl of y gloom six year and s , cpj the > f ession climate ; and of this she South records . in She her mentions journal that her one ardent word desire of the to Italian return language as soon , as heard possible by . chance 'to the ,
brings those she tears loved into and her of eye all s ; her thoug happ h she iness describes . Italy as the murderess of " For some time , after her arrival in London , Mrs . Shelley resided with her
Kent father ish , who Town was and now then living to Harrow in the Strand in order ; but that she she subsequentl miht be near y rem her oved son to who was being , educated at the school , there . The expenses g incidental to ,
self port tuition -devotion of tried her aged her she severel father worked , y ; incessantl But besides , ivith which a with noble , she her energy contributed and , of character met towards her liabilities and the entir sup b e - y pen y
the fruits of her , literary industry . , . " The novels which she published after the death of her husband were—The Last 1824 PerkinWarbeek 1830
_* _'Y Lodore alperga , ' 1835 , ' in ; 1823 and ' ; _JTalkner ' , ' 1837 Man . She , ' wrote ; all ' the Italian . and , S ' panish ; lives and she in ' greatl Lardner regretted ' s Encyclopaedia that the , ' former with the did exception not fall to of her Tasso share and Galileo She also ;
wrote an account two volumes of her y travels , under with the title her of son Rambles , his tutor in , and Germany some other and Ital companions . y , ' giving ,
it ) later years ; contributed several short productions to the annuals ; and edite " Durin d ( 1839 g the -40 ) earlier Shelley days ' s poetical of her works return , his to Eng letters land , and , she his had prose to fi writings ght hard . which at times almost her
the against 14 th a of sense May of , 1824 despondency , she writes , in her journal . : _*— overcame . On deeper " * Amidst than the all failure the depressing of my intellectual circumstances powers that . wei Nothing _^ gh upon I me write , none pleases sinks of
me couragem . Whether ent , I I can am just hardl in y tell _thisj ; or but whether it seems it is to the me want as if the Shelley lovely ' s and enam sublime lost objects Althoug of h Nature so utterl had been miserable my best at insp Genoa irers yet , and what , wanting reveries these were , I
. y , mine as I looked on the aspect of the ravine—the sunny deep and its boatsthe the promontories uprising of Spring clothed ! in Then purp I le could light— think the starry and heavens imag — ination the fireflies could —•
invent and combine ; and self _became absorbed ; in the my grandeur , of the universe I created . Now , my mind is a blank—a gulf filled with formless mist .
I ' The feel Last myself Man as ! ' * the Yes last , I relic may of well a beloved describe race that , solitary my companion being ' s s feelings extinct : _Tbefor iC l e Mine me . own Shelley ! what a horror had . of returning ' .. to this
miserable _country ! To be here without you , you is to be doubly exiled ; to be away had from " just On Ital the reached y , following is to lose Eng you land day twice , . she The ! records ' recolle the ction , death of of his Byron association , news with of which hex
husbandand of his kindness to herself after her great calamity , makes her exclaim : , —* God grant I may die young ! A new race is springing about
All me . At old the friends age of are twenty : - I six have , I am no wish in the to condition form new of : I an cling aged to the persou few . remaining my but they slide gone awayand my heart fails when I think by how
few ties I hold ; to the world . ' "
" * _'«« She was at . that time writing- the novel so called . —Ed , "
130 Kotiges Oe . ^ Books.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/58/
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