Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
PBS is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.

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Education Jean Rhys
At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
Education Jean Rhys
JR attended the local Catholic convent school where whites were in the minority. Most of the girls were coloured (of mixed blood). Mother Mount Calvary, the Superior of the convent, gave her extra instruction in...
Family and Intimate relationships Laura Riding
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
Education Christina Rossetti
Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother , in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their...
Birth Evelyn Sharp
One brother died before Evelyn was born, and another during the family's year of foreign travel. She had two younger brothers. She called her birthday a fine revolutionary anniversary because it was also the birthday...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , over her mother 's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley that she loved him.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Residence Mary Shelley
Having spent four days travelling from Pisa, MS and her family moved into their house at Lerici, almost on the seashore; she was still there when her husband was drowned.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley met in Hatton Garden, London, to elope to France; with them went her stepsister, Claire Clairmont .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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Publishing Mary Shelley
The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
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Travel Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont travelled through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS published a short-lived edition of her husband 's Posthumous Poems, in 500 copies.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Residence Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont returned from abroad, in financial straits, to London, where they lived in a series of lodgings.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS edited and published a new edition of her husband 's works, with much prefatory material by herself.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
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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.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS edited and issued Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by her husband and herself.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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