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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .
qtd. in
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Ogilvy
The End of 1854 exemplifies EO 's political awareness ('Twas a soldier year / We are burying here),
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth, 1856.
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but her sense of politics is rooted in history. Many of these poems relate...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Aldous Huxley
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Jellicoe
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Jane Jewsbury
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,
qtd. in
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 1, The Library, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73.
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she scolds those...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The 1888 edition features a sonnet written for Shelley , as well as one written on 29 December 1880 for George Eliot (a week following her death), entitled The Lost Light.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998.
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EJP
Travel Mary Shelley
Mary and Percy Shelley , with their two children William and baby Clara, left England for Italy.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
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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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Travel Dorothy Wellesley
Dorothy Ashton (later DW ) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning , while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...
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, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Travel Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her family were abroad again, spending the summer on Lake Geneva, mostly at the historic Villa Diodati.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
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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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Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Marsh
Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...
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, 1997, pp. 9-45.
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