Chapter XXIII: October 1831-October 1839

Godwin's _Thoughts on Man_ (1830)--Letter to Mary--Letter
from Clare--Question of Percy's going to a public school.

1831. Mary Shelley applies to Sir Timothy for an increase of
allowance--She is refused.

1832. Letter from Godwin asking for an idea or suggestion--
Mary writes "Lives of Italian and Spanish Literary Men" for
Lardner's _Cyclopaedia_--Clare's tale--Cholera in London--
Mary goes to Sandgate--Trelawny returns--His daughter stays
with Mary at Sandgate--Death of Lord Dillon--Letter from
Godwin--His son William dies of cholera--Posthumous novel,
_Transfusion_--Clare's letters to Jane and Mary.

1833. Mrs. Shelley goes to live at Harrow--Letter to Mrs.
Gisborne--Influenza--Solitude--Hard work--Letter from
1834 Godwin--Letters from Mary to Trelawny and to Mrs.
Gisborne--Offer of L600 for annotated edition of Shelley's
works--Difficulties.

1835. _Lodore_--Its success--Reminiscences of her own
experiences--Letter from Clare--Melancholy letter from Mary
to Mrs. Gisborne--"A Dirge"--Trelawny returns from America--
Mary's friendship with Mrs. Norton--Letter to Mrs.
Gisborne--Godwin's 1836 death--Efforts to get an annuity for
his widow--Letters from Mrs. Norton and Trelawny.

1837. Letters from Mary to Trelawny--Death of the Gisbornes--
Impediments to Mary's undertaking the biography of her
father--Her edition of Shelley's works--Painful task.

1839. Letter from Sir E. L. Bulwer--Fragment from Mrs.
Norton--The Diplomatic Service--Journal--Bitter Vexations--
Illness--Recovery 233-291