At 16, Mary fell in love with Percy Shelley, an aristocrat by birth and atheist by declaration, a rebel at every chance. They ran off together. There was already a Mrs. Shelley: Harriet ...

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 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley ... still famous as the author of the Gothic novel, Frankenstein). Shelley abandoned Harriet in favor of Mary, now enraging a second father, the philosopher William Godwin.

In bad health, Shelley returned to England with her ... is that Mary was only 20 when she published it. In 1816, Percy’s wife ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley has been beckoning from ... while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August ... the death Mary’s younger half-sister Fanny and the suicide of Harriet Shelley, who had been forgotten in the whirlwind romance with Mary Godwin.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) made a life ... he eloped to Scotland in 1811 with the sixteen-year-old Harriet Westbrook. Three years later, in a revision of that revision of his original principle, ...

in 1812 Percy Shelley was seen as a dangerous radical by the establishment. Expelled from Oxford for his atheism he then scandalously eloped with Harriet Westbrook and the two of them went to ...

She had fallen in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- he was 21, already married, and had a child with his wife, Harriet. He was a fan of William Godwin and his ideas which had led him to ...