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Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny was born to a family of modest income but extensive ancestral history.
Edward John Trelawny was an English author and adventurer, the friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, whom he portrayed brilliantly in his books. Trelawny was a handsome, dashing, and quixotic personality from an old and famous Cornish family.
Edward John Trelawny was born in 1792 in Cornwall to parents so cruel and abusive that, at age 12, their son was relieved to be given over to the Royal Navy, to sail in the hold of an odoriferous, broken-down frigate and be bossed by uneducated brutes.
Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
Edward John Trelawny. (1792—1881) writer and adventurer. Quick Reference. (1792–1881), of Cornish descent, born in London. He is remembered principally for his connection with and records of Shelley and Byron. Formerly a midshipman in the navy, he met Shelley in Pisa in 1822 and was present at Leghorn when Shelley was drowned.
Jul 1, 1998 · Edward Trelawny is remembered as the author of three books: Adventures of a Younger Son, which relates his exploits as a ‘pirate’, Recollections of Byron and Shelley and Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author.
Following the death of the nonagenarian Samuel Rogers in 1855 Edward John Trelawny went on to become the chief living chronicler of romantic poets. While Rogers spent most of his long life engaged with politicians and men of letters, Trelawny, save for the few months spent in the Pisan circle in Italy, mixed little with the world, wrote little ...
Edward John Trelawny, 1792–1881, English adventurer. A friend of Byron and Shelley, he was at Livorno when Shelley was drowned, and later served with Byron in the Greek War of Independence.
Edward John Trelawny, 1792 -1881, English writer. Trelawny entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven, only to desert and lead a life of adventure (described in his Adventures of a Younger Son, 1831 ). In 1821 he met Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron in Pisa.
Aug 1, 2013 · In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career...
