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On this clever, pretty and mercurial daughter all her partiality was lavished; and the unhappy girl, pampered by a philistine mother in a revolutionary atmosphere, was at the age of seventeen seduced by Byron, and became the mother of the fairy child, Allegra. The second Mrs. Godwin was the stepmother of convention, and treated both Fanny Imlay and Mary Godwin with consistent unkindness.
In this house, Miss Clairmont, with her brother and Allegra, lived as Shelley's guests; and here Clara Shelley was born on the 3rd of September, 1817. In the same autumn, Shelley suffered from a severe pulmonary attack. The critical state of his health, and the apprehension, vouched for by Mrs.
These were evidently far from satisfactory, as we find Shelley writing letters of caution to Claire in 1822, with regard to Byron and Allegra: he mentions having warned her against letting Byron get possession of Allegra in the spring of 1818, but Claire thought it for the interest of the child, whom she undoubtedly loved, to let her go to her father.
The piano jangled, and she began her song, Schubert's "Linden-Tree." Her voice shook and quavered as she went on, but I knew it. I had found the Lady Allegra. The audience listened indifferently. This sort of thing did not appeal to East Houston Street sensibilities, and there was no applause at the end.
My instructions were simply to be in waiting at the Worth Monument in Madison Square at half-after eight; for the rest Red-Fez would hold himself responsible. And upon this understanding we parted. "The Lady Allegra," I said, under my breath, as I walked home. "The Lady Allegra." Up to this point I had kept my own counsel, but now I felt it my duty to make a confidant of Indiman.
Jeaffreson and later Professor Dowden, leave nothing to be said. Shelley wrote to Mary describing his visit to Allegra at the convent, where he found her prettily dressed in white muslin with an apron of black silk.
They all seem to have fallen in love with her, so to speak the young English girls as much as the impressionable art-critic: and the new human interest in her Alpine tragedy relieved, as such interests do, the painfulness of the circumstances through which they had been passing. Her sister Marie was like an Allegra to this Penserosa; bright and brilliant in native genius.
I don't like chemical burgundies, and the "health-food" mochas and javas are only surprisingly good imitations of exceedingly bad coffee. The chair opposite me remained unfilled, but each course was served at the cover as scrupulously as though the Lady Allegra were actually present.
Married 1st + Mary Woolstonecraft. 2nd Mrs. Clairmont. | She had by previous | | alliance | | | Claire Claremont + Byron. P. B. Shelley + Mary Godwin Fanny Imlay. | Allegra. On the 25th of April, 1816, Byron embarked for Ostend. From the "burning marl" of the staring streets he planted his foot again on the dock with a genuine exultation.
Then at the next street-lamp I stopped and released her. Within the circle of the light we stood and gazed into each other's eyes. The Lady Allegra who was! It seems odd to think of her now as Alice Allaire a pretty enough name but not particularly romantic. And when she changes it to Thorp, as she has just promised to do But perhaps I am going a bit too fast.
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