Poetry 

(DES) These enigmas, or series of riddles, were used as mnemonics in teaching the names of history, literary and political figures, the names and locations of geographical markers and celestial objects such as plants and comets, and constellations with an emphasis on classical and biblical characters.||(REF) See copac.ac.uk; 2 copies St. Andrews and Bodleian.||(SUM) Elizabeth Hitchener was a schoolmistress who enjoyed a close romantic and intellectual relationship with shelley. Her school at Hurstpierpoint was about 20 miles from Shelley's birthplace at Horsham; she was known to Shelley's uncle, Captain Pilfold. The pair maintained a correspondence, and in July 1812 she joined Shelley's household at Lynmouth, a step which proved disastrous for her relationship with the poet. While at Lynmouth, Hitchener helped Shelley to distribute copies of his revolutionary Declaration of rights and the broadsheet ballad The devil's walk by various means, including bottles thrown into the sea, home-made fire balloons, and ingeniously-constructed boat-boxes. Differences of opinion, jealousies, and other tensions soon forced Hitchener's return to Hurstpierpoint, where she was the subject of scandalous gossip and for some time quite poor.||(PRV) With the ownership inscription of Sarah Grantham of Barcombe Place, Sussex, the bookplate of William Grantham, and a later (1882) Grantham ownership inscription. George Grantham (1782-1849) married Sarah Verrall, daughter of William Verrall, brewer, of Southover, Lewes, Grantham acquired Barcombe Place in 1839; Barcombe is about 11 miles from Elizabeth Hitchener's home in Hurstpierpoint. See both Women romantics and cosmopolitanism, University of Colorado exhibition catalogue, 2004, and Romantic poetry by women, p.160.||(BIN) Bound in original green cloth. 

[4], 91 p. ; 20 cm.