In _Mathilda_ it is at first Herbert, which is used until after the rewritten conclusion (see note 83) but is corrected throughout to Woodville.

On the final pages Woodville alone is used.

(It is interesting, though not particularly significant, that one of the minor characters in Lamb's _John Woodvil_ is named Lovel.

Such mellifluous names rolled easily from the pens of all the romantic writers.) This, her first portrait of Shelley in fiction, gave Mary considerable trouble: revisions from the rough drafts are numerous.

The passage on Woodville's endowment by fortune, for example, is much more concise and effective than that in _S-R fr_.