![]() ![]() What else? I am a Londoner by birth and now live on the north shore of lovely Sydney. One was surrounding the circumstances of Mary’s sister Fanny’s suicide, and the other was the mystery of the ‘Neapolitan child’, a child that Shelley falsely registered in Naples as his and Mary’s. I did ‘make up’ or at least offer my own interpretation, to at least two unexplained incidents in the Shelley’s lives. When I bemoaned this compulsive behaviour to my lovely editor, she continually pointed out that it was fiction and I could make it up! ![]() I once spent a week researching steamboats for a half paragraph at a point when this is Shelley’s obsession. I have a research gene that meant I could not leave a subject alone, however trivial. I also discovered that my research consultancy has not just been a fluke career. I also spent a fortune to buy the books to have in my office, because unfortunately, there is a mountain of extant information on these people. ![]() The Mitchell kept a trolley load for me that made it pleasant. Coffee shops are also great, but the volume of reference books I needed made this very difficult. I discovered that writing is a lonely business and that it is important to seek out conducive spaces like the library to avoid being bored. The writing has meant a steep personal learning curve. ![]() In Sydney I did most of my textual research in the Mitchell Library. ![]()
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