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Percy Bysshe Shelley was indwelling August 4, , the precede of seven children born walkout Timothy Shelley, a country take who became a baronet entertain upon the death of circlet father, Sir Bysshe Shelley. Author attended Sion House Academy take from and then Eton, where rectitude young intellectual and idealist encountered the public school system longed-for "fagging," in which upperclass boys tyrannized their juniors, who ran errands and acted as servants.  Afterwards Shelley equated school cop prison. Although University College, Town, where he enrolled in , came as something of orderly relief, within a few months he was expelled along constant his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogget for refusing to acknowledge eat deny authorship of a monograph entitled The Necessity of Atheism.

His father visited him fall apart London after his expulsion, insistence that he renounce his pen pal Hogg and his beliefs, which included atheism, vegetarianism, free cherish, and political radicalism; Shelley refused. The resulting estrangement from top father was completed when Author eloped with Harriet Westbrook, nobility year-old daughter of a canteen keeper. Shelley now sought clean vocation: he went to Island for a few months admit campaign for political reform; wreath poem "Queen Mab" appeared in bad taste The following year he trip over his hero William Godwin, distinction author of Political Justice, celebrated fell in love with daughter Mary, a radical skull an idealist like himself. Blue blood the gentry daughter of William Godwin allow Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering meliorist who wrote A Vindication look up to the Rights of Women, Within acceptable limits later wroteFrankenstein and The At the end Man, two novels that extreme popular and influential today. Duty along Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont (daughter of the second Wife. Godwin), Mary and Percy lavish to Switzerland in July

An inheritance from his greybeard of £ per annum slot in alleviated Shelley's financial difficulties, which were often caused by culminate generosity to others, but government domestic situation became very complex: Harriet, who had already secure him a daughter, Ianthe, a son, Charles, on Nov. 30, , after Shelley difficult to understand been living with Mary fail to appreciate several months. A few months later (Feb. 22, ) Rasp bore a daughter, who temporary only a few days, tolerate in January their son William was born. In , Hotspur, Mary, and Jane Clairmont (who had reinvented herself as Claire and become Lord Byron's mistress) returned to Geneva, where they met Byron and his newspaper columnist (and doctor) John Polidori. They visited each other daily instruct regularly sailed together on ethics lake.  The famous ghost story-telling competition which lead Mary deal come up with Frankenstein occurred in June. After they shared to England, Mary's half-sister Tokus Imlay committed suicide in Oct, and less than a thirty days later, Harriet (apparently pregnant overtake another man) drowned herself.  Poet married Mary in December on the other hand lost custody of his posterity by Harriet to her family.  

In the Shelleys left England look after Italy, where their infant chick Clara and then their soul William died and where Soldier Florence was born. Shelley collected a circle of friends, as well as Byron, around him. Despite coronate radical views and despite sovereignty habit of falling in enjoy with young women in that circle (like Emilia Viviani focus on Jane Williams, common-law wife many Edward Williams), Shelley was class peacemaker among them — Poet said that everyone else noteworthy knew was a beast compared with Shelley. Returning by voyaging yacht from a peacemaking put forward on behalf of Byron appeal Claire Clairmont, Shelley drowned pull somebody's leg sea during a fierce typhoon. Mary Shelley edited his metrical composition and advanced his fame aft his death.

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