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  • These visits resulted in Trelawny's expansion and republication of his Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, as Records of Shelley,

    Shelley's Pod People 2005

  • William St Clair, in Trelawny: The Incurable Romancer, suggests Mrs. Beauclerc's ball as a possible occasion (51). close window

    Notes 2002

  • The attribution of this work to Trelawny is clearly incorrect, as both the hand and the subject are distinctly Williams's.

    Notes 2002

  • Don’t tell him, because he does not deserve it, that Trelawny is with me; 3 that he has anxiously inquired after him; that Trelawny himself is remarkably well; that we live together, and are mightily happy; with fifty other matters, that he deserves not to be acquainted with.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • By reading the figures of "live burials" in Shelley's strange poem alongside the poet's own overdetermined afterlife, Swann's essay demands that we reconsider the presumed naiveté of friends such as Trelawny who loved the poet enough to ask not only for his bones but for as much of the corpse as could be salvaged from the fires.

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

  • I couldn't see where you'd got to -- our children, "he observed parenthetically," have their uses -- I want you to go to my study, Katharine; go to the third shelf on the right-hand side of the door; take down 'Trelawny's Recollections of Shelley'; bring it to me.

    Night and Day 1920

  • I can say "McGonagal," and "Trelawny," and their very wicked sister, Dolores Umbrage.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • It centers on Byron's vainglorious sidekick, Edward Trelawny, whose wildly exaggerated autobiography was long accepted as true.

    In Brief: Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • Trelawny accordingly depleted his own purse for the purpose, and in June 1823 she left for London with her three-year-old child.

    Biography in the DNB 2010

  • I can say "McGonagal," and "Trelawny," and their very wicked sister, Dolores Umbrage.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

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