24/53 In an unpublished letter (1822) to Jane Williams she wrote, "Until I met Shelley I [could ?] justly say that he was my God--and I remember many childish instances of the [ex]cess of attachment I bore for him." See Nitchie, _Mary Shelley_, p. the account of the services of Fantasia in the opening chapter of _F of F--A_ (see pp. 90-102) together with note 3 to _The Fields of Fancy_. The quotation is from _The Captain_ by John Fletcher and a collaborator, possibly Massinger. |