Edward John Trelawny

MS 's family believed that existing sexual customs were corrupted by the distorting effects of power, money, and the state. Her own experience (living with Shelley while his first wife was alive, marrying him just...

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...

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

MS is often said to have lapsed into conservatism with her husband's death. She did indeed break with the Philosophic Radicals, and was charged by Trelawny with backing down. During the violence preceding the Reform...

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...