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Updated: May 18, 2025
If Mary quotes Coleridge's Ancient Mariner intentionally here, she is ironic, for this is no merciful rain, except for the fact that it brings on the illness which leads to Mathilda's death, for which she longs. Cf. the description which opens Mathilda. At this point four sheets are cut out of the notebook. They are evidently those with pages numbered 217 to 223 which are among the S-R fr.
A similar passage about Mathilda's fears is cancelled in F of F B but it appears in revised form in S-R fr. There is also among these fragments a long passage, not used in Mathilda, identifying Woodville as someone she had met in London. Mary was wise to discard it for the sake of her story.
Abbreviations: F of F A The Fields of Fancy, in Lord Abinger's notebook F of F B The Fields of Fancy, in the notebook in the Bodleian Library S-R fr fragments of The Fields of Fancy among the papers of the late Sir John Shelley-Rolls, now in the Bodleian Library In the MS of the journal, however, it is spelled first Matilda, later Mathilda.
Here in F of F B there is an index number which evidently points to a note at the bottom of the next page. The note is omitted in Mathilda. All minds, as mirrors, receive her forms yet in each mirror the shapes apparently reflected vary & are perpetually changing " See note 20. Mary Shelley had suffered this torture when Clara and William died. This sentence is not in F of F B or in S-R fr.
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