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
Here he wrote Alastor (1816), a non-political poem of haunting beauty, which first brought him general notice and reviews (Oxford Companion of English Literature, 895). Mary was the daughter of a political philosopher named William Godwin. In 1810, Shelley enrolled at Oxford University College. He left her shortly after in 1814 with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her 15-year-old stepsister, Jane "Claire" Clairmont. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Shelley and Mary did not believe in marriage, but they were wed after Harriet drowned herself in 1816 in the Serpentine. They were both expelled in March 1811 for writing and passing out a pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism. Mary began Frankenstein that summer. They got a house on the edge of Windsor Great Park. Shelley tried to gain custody of his first child, but lost. Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian, published in 1811 (Frank N. Their relationship lasted for eight years. Shelley and Mary went back to London. In August 1811, Shelley eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, the daughter of a former London coffee house owner (World Book Encyclopedia, 391).
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