Percy Bysshe Shelley

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...

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...

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

In probably February 1924 LR began a brief but passionate affair with writer Allen Tate , whom she called Alastor after Shelley 's poem of that title. After her first marriage ended in divorce, LR

Tillie Lerner's instructor and inspiration in political radicalism, Eugene Konecky , was also interested in erotic relations with young girls. In summer 1927 she took my first lover—probably a young man named...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin first met Percy Bysshe Shelley when he and his wife, Harriet Westbrook Shelley , dined with the Godwins at their house in Skinner Street.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley renewed their acquaintance after her second return from Dundee.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , over her mother 's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley that she loved him.

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley met in Hatton Garden, London, to elope to France; with them went her stepsister, Claire Clairmont .

His specialities were scandal, pornography, and blackmail. He was an attacker of the alleged profiteer Mary Anne Clarke , and claimed to have given her protector the Duke of York the idea of getting hold...

He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution...

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...

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...