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Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
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Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems.
Shelley was now financially responsible for Mary and Claire as well as Harriet, who was heavily pregnant with their second child. Godwin refused to see him, but drew on his resources. Mary wrote this impassioned letter to Shelley when he was in hiding from his numerous creditors. They could meet only on Sundays, when it was illegal to make arrests for debt.

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Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont.
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
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Nouran Koriem
Keywords
journal
shelley's ghost
biography
mary shelley. percy bysshe shelley
history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:01:38

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