Footsteps by Richard Holmes
Revue de Paris, 260-1
Robespierre, Maximilien, 82, 83, 86, 96, 123; and Paine, 100, 115; attacks Girondists, 106; Festival of Supreme Being, 116
Roger-Viollet, 204
Rogier, Camille, 223, 228, 248
Roland, Jean Marie, 102, 106
Roland, Marie Jeanne, 95, 102, 105, 106, 112
Romanticism, in Europe, 210, 221, 225, 226-7, 236, 239, 255, 262-3, 268;petit-cénacle, 223, 226-7
Romantics, the English, 76, 86, 126-8, 135, 224; and revolution, 127-8, 131
Rome, 162-70; Arch of Titus, 169, 170; Bagni di Caracalla, 166, 170; Coliseum, 164-5; Conversazione, 165; Via di Tre Conti, hostelleria, 166-70
Roscoe, William, 90, 92
Rouget de l’Isle, Claude Joseph, 125
Russell, Thomas, 130
Sabatier, Mme (courtesan), 272 Saint-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 222, 227
St Germain-de-Calberte, 18, 62, 63
St Jean-du-Gard, 62, 63
San Francisco, 41
San Terenzo (Lérici), 137-9, 183-98; Casa Magni, 139, 183-4, 186-94, 195, 196-7
Saturnin (patient at Passy), 266
schizophrenia, 236-7
Schlabrendorf, Count Gustav von, 102, 124
Schweizer, Jean-Gaspard, 102, 124
Schweizer, Madeleine, 102, 124
Séguier, “Spirit”, 48, 49
Severn, Joseph, picture of PBS, 166
Shelley, Clara (daughter of PBS), 140, 141, 144; death, 158
Shelley, Elena Adelaide (“Neapolitan charge”), 157, 170-7
Shelley, Harriet (née Westbrook; first wife of PBS), 141, 153
Shelley, Mary (née Godwin; second wife of PBS): birth, 130; elopes with PBS, 126, 131, 171, 177; in Kentish Town, 155; life in Italy with PBS, 141, 144, 156-7, 165; death of daughter, 158; relations with PBS, 153-4, 160-2, 179-81, 182, 189-91; and Claire, 172, 176, 183, 191, 194; at Casa Magni, 139, 186, 187-95; miscarriage, 190-1; letter to Hunt, 188; and PBS’s dreams, 192-5; at PBS’s death, 197; portrayed by Peacock, 181; journal, 154, 163-4, 172, 175; “The Choice”, 189; Mathilda, 141
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: elopes with Mary, 126, 131; 1814-15, Kentish Town, 155; travels, 135; travels in Italy, 136-7, 138, 139-40, 141, 144; 1818. house hold in Italy, 140-141; creative output, 140; Naples, 141-2; Pisa, 144-9; Este, 156-7; Padua, 157; death of daughter, 157; letter to Claire, 158-9; 1819: Rome, 150, 163-6, 168-9; death of son, 149-50; “Neapolitan charge”, 157, 170-7; 1819-20, Livorno, 154, 175-7; 1820-1, Pisa, 177-80; 1820-2, separated from Claire, 159-61;1821, scandal, 157, 161, 172; black-mail, 172, 175-6; 1822, San Terenzo, 140, 183-5, 186-97; final dreams, 192-7; drowned, 197
Adonais, 150, 187; “Ariel to Miranda”, 187; The Assassins, 143; The Cenci, 154, 170, 172; elegy to son, 149;Epipsychidion, 140, 152, 161, 180, 184; “Evening: Porte al Mare, Pisa”, 178-9, 180; Hellas, 185;The Mask of Anarchy, 154; Mont Blanc, 196; “Ode to Liberty”, 176;Prometheus Unbound, 126, 140, 151, 164, 170, 195-6; The Revolt of Islam, 182; “Stanzas Written in Dejection”, 141-2; Symposium, trans., 144; The Triumph of Life, 140
boat, 138, 183-4; character andregime, 140-1, 151, 182; attitude to children, 174; and Claire, see underClairmont, Claire; ideas of community, 142-3; and families, 141; attitude to marriage, 152-4, 181-3; and Mary, see under Shelley, Mary; politics, 143, 151-2, 182, 185; reputation and image, 135-6, 152, 182, 197-8; and revolution, 76, 142-4, 151-2
Shelley, Percy Florence (son of PBS), 177, 184-5
Shelley, William (son of PBS), 140, 141, 144, 145, 149, 150; death, 149;PBS’s elegy to, 149-50
Shields, Milly (maidservant), 144
Singer, Mlle (in Lozère), 16
Sitwell, Fanny, 43, 44
Smythe, Sir Robert, 89
Southey, Robert, 76-7, 209
Stadler, Eugène de, 254
stars, 249-50
Stevenson, Bob (cousin of RLS), 39, 42-4, 64
Steventon, Robert Louis: childhood, 15, 32; career and youth, 15; early travels, 15; at Grez, 39, 43; ill, 1877-8, 44-5; and Fanny Osbourne, see under Osbourne, Fanny; 1878, journey in France, 14, 15-16, 17, 21, 22-4, 26-7, 28-9, 30-1, 48-62; equipment, 17-18; route, 17, 18; and donkey, 17, 18, 19-20, 28, 50, 52-3, 62; depression, 50; at Trappist monastery, 29, 31-4, 36-9; night in open at Finiels, 52-5; later life, 40, 63-4, 65
A Child’s Garden of Verses, 51; An Inland Voyage, 15; A Mountain Town in France, 16; The Pentland Rising, 48;The Silverado Squatters, 65; Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 16, 31, 33, 37, 38-9, 48, 58-9, 62, 63-5; school edition, 65; route, today, 68;Virginibus Puerisque, 45-7
artistic vocation, 37-9; re boyishness, 46-7; re Camisards, 48-9; child-hood in books of, 67; and children, 22-3; dreams of children, 27; and father, 15, 45, 58, 59, 64; remarriage, 45-6, 208; religion, 29, 32-3, 36-7, 58-9; re travel, 15, 29, 30-1, 33, 51; attitude to women, 29, 38-9, 54, 56, 60, 62
Stevenson, Thomas (father of RLS), 15, 45, 58, 59, 64
Stone, John Hurford, 102
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 91, 94
Tarot cards, 215-16, 226, 249, 268
theatre, French, 223, 224, 228, 229, 251, 252
time, 20-1, 179; in Nerval’s work, 225-226, 253, 270; see also past, the
Trappist monks, 29, 31-9; today, 34-6
travel, 15, 29, 30-1, 33, 51
Treason Trials, 1794, 89, 115
Trelawny, Edward John, 139, 146, 177, 190; as biographer, 168, 194; and Claire Clairmont, 154, 181; letterre PBS, 181-2
United Irishmen, 124, 130
Vallon, Annette, 81, 82, 84, 85, 96
Valois: Nerval’s childhood in, 217-18, 220, 262; Nerval writes of, 250-1, 253, 262-3
Vandergrift, Fanny, see Osbourne, Fanny
Venice, Shelleys in, 156-7, 158
Verne, Jules, De la Terre à la Lune, 209
Vienna, Nerval in, 231-2
Vigny, Alfred, Comte de: Chatterton, 224; Servitude et Grandeur Militaires, 226
Walpole, Horace, 92
Westbrook, Harriet, see Shelley, Harriet
Wheatcroft, John, 115
White’s Hotel, Paris, 87-8, 103; group, 86, 87-9
Williams, Edward, 177, 179, 183, 189, 190, 192, 193
Williams, Helen Maria, in Paris, 79-80, 89, 95, 103, 105; and MW, 97, 102, 117; arrested, 86, 111;Memories of the Reign of Robespierre, 86
Williams, Jane, 177, 184, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193; letter from Claire Clairmont, 156; letter from Mary Shelley, 197
Winckelmann, Johann, 164
Wollstonecraft, Edward John (father of MW), 91, 94
Wollstonecraft, Eliza (sister of MW), 94, 116
Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth (mother of MW), 94
Wollstonecraft, Evarina (sister of MW), 94; MW’s letters to, 95, 97, 116, 125
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 76; early life and family, 90-4; in France, 1792-5, 94-130; Paris, 1792-3, 94-106; Neuilly, 1793, 107-9; Paris, 1793-4, 111-14; registered as Gilbert Imlay’s wife, 111; Le Havre-Marat, 1794, 114-24; Paris, 1794-5, 124-9; journey home, 1795, 129-30; London, 7795, 130; marriage to Godwin, and death, 130
History of the Revolution, 96, 97-8, 99, 107, 110, 115, 118; “Lessons for Children”, 120-3; Letters to Imlay, 126; Letters Written in Sweden, 109, 118, 130, 131-2; “On the Present Character of the French Nation”, 103-4; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 91, 94; The Wrongs of Women, 120
appearance and character, 91-4, 110, 131; and imagination and rebellion, 126, 127-8, 131; and Gilbert Imlay, see under Imlay, Gilbert; letters to Imlay in London, 126-7, 128-9; motherhood, 119-23
wolves, 23, 24-5
Wordsworth, William: in France, 1790, 75, 79; Paris, 1791-2, 79-81, 82-5; Blois, 81-2; returns to England, 84-5; The Prelude, 81, 82, 84, 85
Zoroaster, 196
About the Author
RICHARD HOLMES’Sfirst book was Shelley: The Pursuit which won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer was first published in 1985 and was described by Michael Holroyd as ‘a modern masterpiece’. Coleridge: Early Visions w
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From the reviews of Footsteps:
‘This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.’
HILARY SPURLING, Observer
‘Nothing is simple in this intricate, complicated and fascinating book, which is like a set of Russian dolls, biography containing travel-writing containing autobiography containing and so on. Holmes is indeed a biographer and a romantic in every sense.’
RICHARD BOSTON, Guardian
‘His purpose is to locate “the personal life that is hidden in, and below, the printed page” and then to understand that life by an act of identification. There is nothing more eloquent in this book than Holmes’ account of the biographer’s obsession with the past - that feeling of being “haunted”.’
PETER ACKROYD, Sunday Times
ALSO BY RICHARD HOLMES
One for Sorrow (poems; 1970)
Shelley: The Pursuit (1974)
Gautier: My Fantoms (translations; 1976)
Shelley on Love (1980, 1996)
Coleridge (1982)
Nerval: The Chimeras (with Peter Jay; 1985)
Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin: A Short Residence in
Sweden and Memoirs (Penguin Classics; 1987)
Kipling: Something of Myself (with Robert Hampson:
Penguin Classics; 1987)
De Feministe en de filosoof (1988)
Coleridge: Early Visions (1989)
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (1993)
Coleridge: Selected Poems (1996; Penguin Classics, 2000)
The Romantic Poets and their Circle (National Portrait Gallery, 1997)
Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998)
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (2000)
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