Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
PBS is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, in an engraving by William Finden from a head-and-shoulders portrait by Amelia Curran, 1819. Shelley is gazing slightly to the left, wearing a dark jacket over a white open-necked shirt, and holding a quill. His signature is reproduced below.

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Reception Harriette Wilson
The full title was Confessions of Julia Johnstone, written by herself. In contradiction to the fables of Harriette Wilson. It announces that Johnstone is writing to vindicate her character and those of friends, and...
Reception Bessie Rayner Parkes
Remembered mostly for her prose contributions to the early feminist movement, BRP also produced poetic creations which deserve not to be dismissed. (Her daughter credits her with admiring the poetry of Percy Shelley and more...
Reception Margery Lawrence
In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...
Reception Eliza Cook
EC was herself by this date revelling in the popular success of her work, pleased to find another edition of Poems demanded in an age when the public mind seems nearly as much railroaded as...
Residence Mary Shelley
MS and her family settled briefly in Bagni di Lucca in Italy.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
Residence Mary Shelley
MS moved from Bagni di Lucca to Este and then to join her husband in Venice, where he had gone to visit Byron .
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
226-7
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvii
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
157-8
Residence Mary Shelley
MS joined her husband in Naples after a journey which was long and tiring but not so dangerous as they had anticipated. They watched the flame from Mount Vesuvius as they drove along.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
239-41
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
161
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
xxxviii
Residence Mary Shelley
After the winter months in Naples, MS and her family moved back to Rome (the Holy city,
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
251
as she called it in her diary, where she also quoted six lines from...
Residence Mary Shelley
MS and her husband arrived in Florence after travelling via Pisa and Empoli from Leghorn.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
298
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
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Residence Mary Shelley
The day after the baptism of her two-month-old baby, Percy Florence , MS moved with her husband and son from Florence to Pisa in first an uncomfortable boat and then a jolting carriage.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
307
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
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, 1995.
410 and n3
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
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, 1988.
xvi
Residence Mary Shelley
After visiting the south-west coast during the summer, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Shelley set up home in Bishopsgate, London.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvi
Residence Mary Shelley
Mary and Percy Shelley moved into Albion House, Marlow.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
42
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvi
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...

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