Percy Bysshe Shelley

At her father's death it became necessary for FAK and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an...

FK met her future husband and tormentor during the American tour, in Philadelphia, on 13 October 1832. He saw her perform, and courted her. She professed herself initially uninterested in his suit. A...

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 .

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, she scolds those...

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

AJ 's biographical play, Shelley ; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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...

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...

She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats and James Shirley , to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt , and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Percy Bysshe Shelley , and writers in French, German, and Italian.

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...

Percy Shelley , having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin , attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged...

Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet and Barbara Taylor represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH 's own comment suggests, and subtitles...

In a letter of 1822, in mock despair at the interruptions resulting from writing in a home occupied by children and renovators, FH casts herself as Beatrice in Shelley 's The Cenci (which she misattributes...

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

Quoting a phrase originally used by the seventeenth-century Thomas Fuller , she recalls how at the old slave mart people representing God's image, carved in ebony, were lined up like cattle for sale in most...