Percy Bysshe Shelley

MS helped Edward John Trelawny by editing his autobiographical Adventures of a Younger Son, 1831: among other things she added epigraphs from both Byron and Percy Shelley , and supplied his title. She also...

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

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.

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

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont travelled through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.

MS published a short-lived edition of her husband 's Posthumous Poems, in 500 copies.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Shelley , and Claire Clairmont returned from abroad, in financial straits, to London, where they lived in a series of lodgings.

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

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...