The politics of paternity -- "An infancy outlasting manhood":mother -- The young prometheus -- Exiled to education -- "Untaught foresters": Eton madness -- Gothic "wild boy" and Harriet Grove -- A radical poetic identity -- Icarus at Oxford -- Doubling after the fall: Harriet Westbrook and Elizabeth Hitchener -- Elopement and betrayal -- Seeking new fathers: Keswick -- The Irish expedition -- Wandering reformer -- Phantasmagoria at Tanyrallt -- Marital disengagement -- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin -- Births and deaths -- The mirror of self-analysis -- The creative Swiss summer.