Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Dorothy Leigh Sayers ("Lord Peter Wimsey") was even more vitriolic. "Suppose," said she, "that during the last century the churches had . . . denounced cheating with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition...
...Christianity," says Biographer White, "was for Shelley probably the greatest single despoiler of the human spirit." He liked to sign atheos (atheist) after his name in hotel registers. Other Shelley dislikes: commerce, finance, monarchy, almost any tradition, marriage. Shortly before his death, Shelley wrote Leigh Hunt: "The system of society as it exists at present must be overthrown from the foundations. . . ." Before he was tossed out of Oxford (for publishing The Necessity of Atheism), Shelley had dedicated himself to this overthrow...
...last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned, now he knows whether there is a God or no." Wrote Leigh Hunt: "But Shelley, my divine-minded friend-your friend-the friend of the Universe-he has perished at sea! ... God bless...
John Chapman was one of them. He adapted himself to the change with the philosophic abandon of a publisher who sees himself on the verge of losing a valuable author. Besides, Chapman had another "boarder." This time it was Florence Nightingale's cousin, Barbara Leigh Smith -one of the "tabooed" Smiths, so called because the parents, being progressive thinkers, were in the habit of having children out of wedlock...
...boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements of which this man was composed. . . ." Said Byron: "Why, Trelawny . . . you do it very well." But when Trelawny handed Mary Shelley her husband...