Percy Bysshe Shelley

MS edited and published a new edition of her husband 's works, with much prefatory material by herself.

Percy Shelley (who was living with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ) spent these weeks in hiding in order to avoid arrest for debt.

MS edited and issued Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by her husband and herself.

After visiting the south-west coast during the summer, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Shelley set up home in Bishopsgate, London.

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...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her family were abroad again, spending the summer on Lake Geneva, mostly at the historic Villa Diodati.

Percy Shelley had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it...

Mary and Percy Shelley were married at St Mildred's Church in London.

This year a court deprived Percy Shelley of custody of his children by Harriet (an extraordinary move at a date when paternal custody was an almost unbreakable norm) on the ground of his avowed immoral...

The collection also contained homages to George Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley .

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...

Spark's interest in Mary Shelley had first been aroused by reading Ariel, André Maurois' life of Percy Shelley . She said later that writing this book against time for economic reasons and at the...

Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare , Sir Walter Scott , Byron , Keats , Kipling , Shelley , Wordsworth

Her heritage was English: her mother 's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...

She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? She approaches...