many hours upon the water
Percy Bysshe Shelley was
passionately fond of boats. During the previous summer, which he and
Mary
spent at Marlow near Windsor, he would
drift in a small boat on the Thames
while he wrote. Mary, Claire, and he
had a boat on Lake Geneva during the
1816 summer, in which they sailed
out most evenings. Later in the summer Byron and Shelley undertook a two-week
excursion by boat around the lake stopping at the various sites of
interest reachable from its shores. During this venture Mary Shelley
stayed home to look after her infant boy and write.
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