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Shelley died leaving many of his works unfinished, unpublished or published in expurgated versions with multiple errors. Since the 1980s, a number of projects have aimed at establishing reliable editions of his manuscripts and works. Among the most notable of these are: [184] [185] Reiman, D. H. (gen ed), The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts (23 ...
Jul 31, 2024 · Shelley dodged creditors until the birth of his son Charles (born to Harriet, November 30, 1814), his grandfather’s death (January 1815), and provisions of Sir Bysshe’s will forced Sir Timothy to pay Shelley’s debts and grant him an annual income.
- Donald H. Reiman
On 8 July, Shelley was returning from visiting his friends Lord Byron and James Leigh Hunt when his boat overturned and he was drowned. He was cremated and his ashes placed in the Protestant ...
The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailboat sank during a storm near Viareggio .
During this period, Shelley was briefly arrested as his spiralling debts had finally caught up with him. By 1818, Shelley had ingratiated himself in a London group which included literary figures such as John Keats and William Hazlitt.
Percy Florence Shelley eventually inherited the Shelley estate and married Jane St. John, an admirer of both his parents, who did all she could to preserve and enshrine Shelley’s reputation. Shelley’s reputation after his death was shaped by the same extremes of worship and hatred that he and his writings had elicited during his life.
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Jul 8, 2022 · It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually ...
