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An idiosyncratic history beginning in 1812 and ending in 1822. Be good to each other, it can always get worse.
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Cloudy, but without rain.

— Mary Shelley, December 27
1820.

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Napoleon has breakfast at Mount Pleasant, the home of Sir William Webber Doveton.

Napoleon jokes about how much alcohol Sir William drinks.

Sir William notes how Napoleon is “fat in figure, his body and thighs round and plump” and looks like a giant pig.

— October 4 1820.

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Mary Shelley celebrates her twenty-third birthday by studying Greek, and reading Percy’s “Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot the Tyrant,” a satire in verse dealing with Queen Caroline and George IV and inspired by the grunting of pigs at the Baths of San Guilliano.

— August 30 1820.

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“Prometheus Unbound” is in the merest spirit of ideal Poetry, and not, as the name would indicate, a mere imitation of the Greek drama, or indeed if I have been successful, is it an imitation of anything.

But you will judge.

— Percy Shelley, July 20 1820.

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Walk to the sea.

— Mary Shelley, June 22 1820.

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Read “Caleb Williams.”

— Mary Shelley, June 19 1820.

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Begin [ Rousseau’s ] “Julie.”

— Mary Shelley, January 30 1820.

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Cam Hobhouse is arrested on a warrant issued by the Speaker after he was found guilty of breach of privilege by the House of Commons.

He is not a member of parliament.

He was not provided with an opportunity to defend himself.

He is jailed in Newgate.

— December 14 1819.

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Many thanks for your attention in sending the papers which contain the terrible and important news of Manchester.

— Percy Shelley, September 9 1819.

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I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one

— DON JUAN, Lord Byron July 15 1819.

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