I jolly well would have
Paul Foot, 20 August 1992
Claire clairmont and the Shelleys
by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton.
Oxford, 281 pp., £20, April 1992,0 19 818594 4 Show More
by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton.
Oxford, 281 pp., £20, April 1992,
“... suffered grievously from their detractors, but far worse from their worshippers. The awful Jane St John, who married Shelley’s son and established for her dead father-in-law a ghastly shrine at Bascombe, solved the ‘Claire problem’ by writing her out of the record. This almost permanent friend, sister and companion of Shelley and Mary during their eight ... ”