They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet. [6] In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein.

Mary and Percy were married in London in an unsuccessful attempt to gain custody of his two children by Harriet. Three of their own children died soon after birth, and Mary fell into a deep depression that did not improve even after the birth in 1819 of …

2018年5月31日 · Mary is only 16, and she is running away with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a man five years her senior who is not merely already married but the father of a young child. It’s July 28, 1814, and they’re in the middle of the English Channel, and of …

Shelley married Mary Godwin on 30 December, despite his philosophical objections to the institution. The marriage was intended to help secure Shelley's custody of his children by Harriet and to placate Godwin who had refused to see Shelley and Mary because of their previous adulterous relationship.

2022年8月26日 · When Percy Shelley ran off to be with Mary, he left behind a young child and his wife Harriet, who was pregnant with their second child. Harriet Shelley was distressed by her husband’s affair,...

Did you know that this famous English Romantic poet drowned off the coast of Italy? Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was an English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley. He died when his boat sank off the coast of Italy in 1822.

2024年5月8日 · The lives of Mary Shelley (the brilliant Gothic writer who wrote Frankenstein when just a teenager) and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet and stalwart of the English Literary Canon) were extraordinarily eventful and deeply tragic. Some writers seem to live all in imagination, and their personal lives are tame and quiet compared to ...

2014年4月2日 · English writer Mary Shelley is best known for her horror novel "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus." She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814. The couple were married in 1816 after his first wife committed suicide. After his death in 1822, Mary returned to …

2024年12月16日 · His poem evoking the awful nature of the romantic sublime. An extensive biographical essay on Shelley's life and writings. Includes the revised and expanded 1813 version of "The Necessity of Atheism."