• Name: Knapp, Leonora
• Gender: Female
• Birth Date:
• Death Date:
• Occupation: landlady

St Clair (p. 375) describes Mrs Knapp as Godwin's landlady at Somers Town and describes a plan, which Mrs Knapp vetoed, for Jane to go and live with her in 1815.The editors of Mary Shelley's Journal identify Leonora Knapp, Godwin's landlady at the Polygon, who became a family friend, and whom Godwin sought to persuade to have Claire to live with her. p. 46. Claire was very resistant.

It is assumed that all 'LK's prior to 1812 refer to Knapp. After the marriage of Louisa Holcroft to James Kenney, things are not so certain. We find both an entry in 1814 for: 'LK and L Kenney at tea' and an entry for 24 October 1814 'L K, L Knapp call'. Godwin also uses 'L Ky' on occasion, presumably to differentiate between Knapp and Kenney. There is, moreover, a high degree of overlap between the social circles of LK and L Knapp.

We can be confident that all L K' s'up to March 1812 refer to Knapp, since Louisa Holcroft does not become Kenney until then. After this date, Godwin seems, in a quite random fashion, to refer to both women as 'L K'. To complicate matters, both women socialised with each other and had mutual friends thus, are difficult to be identify with certainty. However, examining the contact from 1812 onwards, it seems clear that he has much more contact with Kenney than Knapp and that, judging from the number of times 'L K' appears associated with James Kenney, the Holcrofts, the Merciers, and the Lambs, he begins to use 'L K' more and more for Kenney. Knapp, on the other hand, seems to be closely linked to Marshall.

Entries between March 1812 and December 1815 have been coded on an individual basis. If L K appears with Kenney or the Holcrofts/Merciers, it has been coded for Louisa Holcroft/Kenney; if LK appears with Marshall then it has been coded for Knapp. If the situation is unclear, the default has been assumed to be Louisa Holcroft/Kenney. After 1815 Mrs Knapp seems to cease appearing in the diary, save for an entry in 1830.

• St Clair
• The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987).

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