Percy Bysshe Shelley

When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...

The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English...

Farr quotes from a variety of sources, from the Book of the Dead and Iamblichus 's The Mysteries to Shelley 's Ozymandias. She also includes long fragments of the Gnostic papyrus...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their...

Stevenson describes HCJ as surrounded by brilliant friends. In Paris she became a friend of prominent liberals including Cornelia Turner (to whom Percy Bysshe Shelley had once been romantically attracted), Daniele Manin , Vincenzo Gioberti

One of ESVM 's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie . Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley and Keats and...

Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke . Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt , then Percy and Mary Shelley and William Hazlitt .

During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with...

The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley , their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont , Byron , and Dr John W. Polidori . Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore...

Violet Paget (later VL ) met Cornelia Turner in Paris. A novelist, companion to Shelley , and lover of Giovanni Ruffini , Turner became a vital supporter of Violet's early writing.

His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse , and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy and Mary Shelley and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont , with...

A young poet whom she calls B—, a descendant of Percy Shelley (and therefore presumably of Mary Shelley too), whom she had known since his boyhood, moved from his own cottage to stay with ME

In 1817 he was sitting up until three in the morning with Percy and Mary Shelley discussing monarchy and republicanism.

MCC 's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles and Mary Lamb , Leigh Hunt