Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM
sold the house, estate...
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
(who was living with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
) spent these weeks in hiding in order to avoid arrest for debt.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
43
Travel
Dorothy Wellesley
Dorothy Ashton (later DW
) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley
and Robert Browning
, while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...
Travel
Mary Shelley
Mary and Percy Shelley
, with their two children William and baby Clara, left England for Italy.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
44
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
149-50
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, p. xxxvii - xlii.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
41
Travel
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
and her family
were abroad again, spending the summer on Lake Geneva, mostly at the historic Villa Diodati.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
41
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
xvi
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
117-25
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
107
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eliza Ogilvy
The End of 1854 exemplifies EO
's political awareness ('Twas a soldier year / We are burying here),
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth.
301
but her sense of politics is rooted in history. Many of these poems relate...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Aldous Huxley
Some critics consider this AH
's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville
about...
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ann Jellicoe
With this play, Jellicoe deliberately broke with her earlier work by writing a narrative drama based on a pre-existing story. She was attracted to the subject of Percy Shelley's life
because it gave her the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ
also shows herself independent-minded in her 1831 essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley
, who was still generally condemned as an atheist and a revolutionary. Praising Shelley's true, pure, beautiful poetry,
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
67
, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
465
she scolds those...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The 1888 edition features a sonnet written for Shelley
, as well as one written on 29 December 1880 for George Eliot
(a week following her death), entitled The Lost Light.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints.
KN
published The Good Want Power. An essay in the psychological possibilities of liberalism, titled from a pronouncement of Percy Bysshe Shelley
which continues: the powerful goodness want.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Timeline
February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...
Writing climate item
February 1793
William Godwin
published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...
Building item
1798
Thomas Robert Malthus
anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
1811: John Frank Newton published The Return to...
Building item
1811
John Frank Newton
published The Return to Nature, or a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen.
10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...
National or international item
10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...
National or international item
9 June 1817
Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth
led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...
National or international item
12 August 1822
The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh
, killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington
's victories and of repressive policies at home.
1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Editor Blind, Mathilde, B. Tauchnitz, 1872.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Adonais. With the types of Didot, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Alastor. S. Hamilton, 1816.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion. C. and J. Ollier, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Editor Shelley, Mary, Edward Moxon, 1840.
Shelley, Mary, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland. T. Hookham and C. and J. Ollier, 1817.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Introductory Note to <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Revolt of Islam</span>”;. The Revolt of Islam.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. J. Munday, 1810.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. Editor Shelley, Mary, John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. C. and J. Ollier, 1820.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. P. B. Shelley, 1813.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. C. and J. Ollier, 1819.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Necessity of Atheism. C and W. Phillips, 1811.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; C. and J. Ollier, 1818.
Plato,. The Symposium on Love. Translator Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Peter Pauper Press.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “When the Lamp is Shattered”. The Literature Network: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Zastrozzi. G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1810.
