percy shelley

             Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, in Sussex into a political and wealthy family. He was the oldest of seven children. Most of his childhood he moved throughout Field Place, Horsham, and Sussex. These appear to be the happiest years of his life.
             He attended Sion House Academy where he got bullied. He stayed in Sion for two years then enrolled into Eton in 1804. Uninterested in sports, living a deep imaginative life of his own, introspective and sensitive, he naturally became "Mad Shelley," and his existence a little hell (Kunitz and Haycraft 556). Here he wrote Zastrozzi (1810), a wild Gothic romance, Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810), and another inferior Gothic romance, St. Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian, published in 1811 (Frank N. Magill 181).
             In 1810, Shelley enrolled at Oxford University College. There he met up with Thomas Jefferson Hogg. They became good friends. They were both expelled in March 1811 for writing and passing out a pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism.
             Shelley and his father had a quarrel and Shelley ran away. In August 1811, Shelley eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, the daughter of a former London coffee house owner (World Book Encyclopedia, 391). At York, Shelley tried sharing Harriet with Hogg. He left her shortly after in 1814 with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her 15-year-old stepsister, Jane "Claire" Clairmont. Their relationship lasted for eight years. Mary was the daughter of a political philosopher named William Godwin. Shelley and Mary did not believe in marriage, but they were wed after Harriet drowned herself in 1816 in the Serpentine. Harriet had had three children, two of whom died in infancy. Shelley tried to gain custody of his first child, but lost. This greatly upset him. Shelley's relationship with Mary and Claire evolve the novella The Assassins (1814). This is about their journeys throughout France, Switzerland, and
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