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,
“... she expressed in different ways her dream: ‘My idea of heaven is a world without Claire.’ But Robert Gittings and Jo Manton have set the record straight here as well. Mary may often have been irritated by Claire. Few who knew her were not. But Mary was devoted to her half-sister, and in Claire’s long periods of absence yearned for news of her. ‘When I ... ”