
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow (Audio)
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Dublin Core
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journal-of-sorrow
Title
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow (Audio)
Description
"In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
To this 'Journal of Sorrow' she confided her innermost thoughts: 'White paper - wilt thou be my confident? I will trust thee fully, for none shall see what I write.' To be sure, Mary would not have shared the entries she wrote immediately after Shelley's death, in which her remorse and despair sometimes approached hysteria. But she left no instructions for the 'Journal of Sorrow' to be destroyed after her death, and was perhaps reconciled to the idea that this, and her other journals, would eventually be seen by other eyes."
To this 'Journal of Sorrow' she confided her innermost thoughts: 'White paper - wilt thou be my confident? I will trust thee fully, for none shall see what I write.' To be sure, Mary would not have shared the entries she wrote immediately after Shelley's death, in which her remorse and despair sometimes approached hysteria. But she left no instructions for the 'Journal of Sorrow' to be destroyed after her death, and was perhaps reconciled to the idea that this, and her other journals, would eventually be seen by other eyes."
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Date
c. 1822
Source
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Nouran Koriem, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).
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Citation
Shelley, Mary, “Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow (Audio),” UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, accessed September 5, 2025, http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/show/14843.