After the birth of his first child, lanthe, the story goes, Shelley was beside himself with anxiety because Harriet Shelley refused to nurse the baby herself and insisted on hiring a wet nurse. In the account recorded by Newman Ivey White, Shelley’s concern was that “the nurse’s soul would enter the child.” Walking up and down the room with the infant in his arms, he crooned nursery songs to her, expostulating with Harriet at the same time about her decision. “At last, in his despair, and thinking that the passion in him would make a miracle, he pulled his shirt away and tried himself to suckle the child” (1,326). White suggests that Thomas Trotter’s View of the Nervous Temperament (1806), which Shelley had ordered from his bookseller Thomas Hookham only a few months earlier (in December 1812), put this notion in his mind. [download]
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