An unpublished entry for October 27, 1822, reads: "Before when I wrote Mathilda, miserable as I was, the inspiration was sufficient to quell my wretchedness temporarily." Another entry, that for December 2, 1834, is quoted in abbreviated and somewhat garbled form by R.Glynn Grylls in _Mary Shelley_ (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), p.

194, and reprinted by Professor Jones (_Journal_, p.

203).

The full passage follows: "Little harm has my imagination done to me & how much good!--My poor heart pierced through & through has found balm from it--it has been the aegis to my sensibility--Sometimes there have been periods when Misery has pushed it aside--& those indeed were periods I shudder to remember--but the fairy only stept aside, she watched her time--& at the first opportunity her ...

beaming face peeped in, & the weight of deadly woe was lightened." [91] An obvious reference to _Frankenstein_.
[92] With the words of Fantasia (and those of Diotima), cf.