The process of expansion can be followed in _S-R fr_ and in _F of F--B_.

The development of the character of Diana (who represents Mary's own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft) gave Mary the most trouble.

For the identifications with Mary's father and mother, see Nitchie, _Mary Shelley_, pp.

11, 90-93, 96-97.
[8] The passage "There was a gentleman ...

school & college vacations" is on a slip of paper pasted on page 11 of the MS.