CHAPTER XXIV

OCTOBER 1839-FEBRUARY 1851

1839. Publication of Shelley's prose works--Motto--Letter from Carlyle.

1840. Journal--Brighton--Continental tour with Percy and his reading-party--Stay at Como--Mary's enjoyment--Her son takes his degree, and receives allowance from his grandfather-- Letter of congratulation from Mrs. Norton--Mary 1841 and Percy go abroad again--Kissingen; Gotha; Weimar; Leipzig; Berlin; Dresden; Prague; Linz; Salzburg; Venice-- Associations--Winter at Florence--Rome--Sorrento--Home again.

1844. _Rambles in Germany and Italy_--Dedication to Rogers: note from him--Death of Sir T. Shelley--Mary's letter to Leigh Hunt--Shelley's various legacies--Letter from Hogg-- Portrait--Mrs. Shelley's literary friendships--Letter from Walter Savage Landor--Hogg's _Shelley Papers_--Subsequent _Life of Shelley_--Facsimile of fragment in Mary's handwriting--Medwin's book inaccurate and objectionable-- Mary fails to write Shelley's Life--Marriage of Sir 1847 Percy Shelley--Mary lives with her son and daughter-in-law-- Her sweetness and unselfishness--Her kindness to her son's friends--Clare's visits to Field Place--Her excitability and eccentricity--Her death at Florence; 1878.

1851. Mary Shelley's health declines--Her death--Her grave in Bournemouth Churchyard--Retrospect of her history and mental development--Extract from Journal of October 1838, giving her own views--The success of her life a moral rather than an intellectual one--Her nobility of character--Her influence on Shelley--Her lifelong devotion to him 292-325

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY