In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer.


여기서 in a princedom by the sea 는 앨런 포의 시 "애너벨 리" 의 구절인데


작중 험버트가 처음에 사랑했던 여자아이의 이름이 애너벨이어서 그녀의 이름을 간접적으로 말한 것