Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciating your review of "The Little Magazine" [TIME, July 1], I must express regret . . . that you managed inadvertently to give the impression that Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, died with the passing of devoted Founder Harriet Monroe in 1936. Won't you tell your readers that Poetry not only continues [but] to a larger subscription list than ever? . . . Poetry is still published in its same home in Chicago . . . "232 E. Erie...
With his hesitant subsiding. . . . Harriet Monroe, the determined little woman who brought out Poetry and edited it until her death in 1936, never found more than 3,000 subscribers...
...most serious charge against Mary was that she had lured Shelley away from his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Harriet was then carrying a child of Shelley's. After Shelley, Mary and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, had set up housekeeping in London, the Prophet of Perfect...
Love begged Harriet to come and live with them. He suggested that she might share him with Mary as generously as Author Smith & Others show that Shelley was sharing Mary with his old Oxford chum, Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Instead, Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine...
...important part of Mary's rehabilitation program was to hush up and tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...