1872/00/00 |
Capt Edward A Silsbee |
Interloper |
Sea captain and Percy Shelley devotee, Edward A Silsbee, visits Claire Clairmont at No 43 on Via Romana in Florence where she lives with her niece Paulina, and becomes her lodger. |
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Tuscany |
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1875/00/00 |
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Claire Clairmont gives Edward Silsbee a copy of "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (London: Moxon, 1870). Clairmont penciled an inscription on the verso of the frontispiece of vol 1. Now in the Pforzheimer Collection at NY Public Library. |
New York Public Library |
New York City |
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1879/07/02 |
Capt Edward A Silsbee |
Interloper |
I have been in treaty for the Shelly letters with Miss Clairmont the elder and her niece, and have always understood that I should have the refusal of them if I would give more than any one else offered - Letter to Charles F Murray from Silsbee, Florence |
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1887/01/00 |
Henry James |
Author |
Henry James hears the story of how Edward Silsbee became a lodger with the Claire Clairmont her niece Paulina in Florence to obtain the private letters written by Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. |
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1887/03/00 |
Henry James |
Author |
In the spring of 1887 while staying in the Villa Brichieri-Colombi on Bellosguardo, Henry James begins writing "The Aspern Papers". James' hostess during his eight month stay is Constance Fenimore Woolson who has a year's lease on the villa. |
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1888/00/00 |
Henry James |
Author |
Henry James finishes "The Aspern Papers" while staying in Venice at the Palazzo Barbaro, a villa owned by Daniel and Ariana Curtis. The desk that Henry James wrote at is still in the Palazzo Barbaro. |
Palazzi Barbaro, Venice |
Venice |
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1888/03/00 |
Henry James |
Author |
"The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published, the first of three serial instalments, in The Atlantic Monthly. |
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1888/04/00 |
The Atlantic Monthly |
Publisher |
The second of three installments of "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published in The Atlantic Monthly. |
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1888/05/00 |
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The third and last installment of "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is published in The Atlantic Monthly. |
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