Transcript Percy Bysshe Shelley Steve Wood TCCC   Percy Bysshe Shelley is born, the oldest child of Sir Timothy Shelley and Elizabeth Pilford. Their children include:        Percy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Steve Wood
TCCC
1792
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Percy Bysshe Shelley is born, the oldest child of
Sir Timothy Shelley and Elizabeth Pilford.
Their children include:
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Percy Bysshe 1792
Elizabeth 1794
Helen 1796
Mary 1797
Helen 1799
Margaret 1801
John 1806
1798
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Shelley studies with his clergyman
Reverend Evan Edwards.
1802-1804
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Shelley attends Syon Academy, near
London.
1804-1810
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Shelley studies at Eton College.
1808
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Shelley is engaged to his cousin Harriet
Grove.
1810
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Shelley breaks off his engagement.
Zastrozzi is published.
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire is published
and then withdrawn.
He enters University College, Oxford.
There he meets Thomas Jefferson Hogg.
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson is
published.
St. Irvyne is published.
1811
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Shelley meets Harriet Westbrook in
January.
In February Shelley and Hogg publish The
Necessity of Atheism anonymously.
On March 25, Shelley and Hogg are
expelled from Oxford.
1811
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Shelley and Harriet Westbrook elope; they
are married in Scotland on August 29.
In the fall, Hogg tries to seduce Harriet.
1812
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Shelley works on behalf of Irish
independence; he publishes a number of
political pamphlets.
1812
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
begins a
correspondence with
William Godwin in
January.
They meet for the
first time in October.
1812
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On November 11,
Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin meets Percy
Shelley when he and
and his wife Harriet
Westbrook dine with
the Godwins. She is
15; he is 20.
1813
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Queen Mab is published in May.
A daughter, Ianthe Shelley, is born on June
23.
1814
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A Refutation of Deism is published.
Increasingly despondent over his growing
passion for Mary, Shelley attempts suicide.
1814
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On July 28, Mary and Percy Shelley elope to
France, accompanied by Claire Clairmont. At the
time, Harriet is five months pregnant.
Despite his own views concerning sexual
freedom and marriage, William Godwin refuses
any communication with his daughter for the next
two and a half years.
They take a six-week tour through France,
Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.
1814
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While in Paris, they leave behind a box of
papers. Mary will later suspect it to contain letters
"George Byron" uses to blackmail her in 1845.
They return to London in September. Mary is
pregnant when they return. Shelley eventually
introduces Mary to a friend, Thomas Jefferson
Hogg.
On November 30, Shelley's wife Harriet gives
birth to a son (their second child) Charles.
1815
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Sir Bysshe Shelley, Percy’s grandfather, dies. An
annual income of 1000 pounds begins six months
later.
In January, Hogg claims to be in love with Mary,
while Percy may have been having an affair with
Claire.
On February 22, Mary gives birth to a daughter,
two months premature. The daughter dies on
March 26.
Almost immediately, Mary gets pregnant again.
1816
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On January 24, Mary gives birth to a son,
William.
In February, the first volume of poems with
Shelley’s name on it appears – Alastor; or,
The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems.
“He lived, he died, he sung in solitude.”
from Alastor
1816
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Claire begins to carry on
an affair with Lord
Byron. Eventually, Mary,
Percy, and Claire leave
England to follow Byron
(and to avoid Percy's
creditors). They settle in
Geneva by the end of
May, and live there for the
summer.
1816
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Mary Shelley begins Frankenstein in
response to a ghost story contest and a
dream.
1816
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The family, including the now-pregnant Claire,
returns to England at the end of the summer.
In October, Mary's half sister Fanny commits
suicide.
In December, the drowned body of Shelley's wife
Harriet is found. Pregnant, she had been missing
for a month.
On December 30, Shelley and Mary are married,
and William Godwin finally reconciles with his
daughter.
1817
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Claire gives birth to Lord Byron's daughter (Alba,
then later named Allegra by her father) in January.
In March, Shelley is denied custody of his
children by Harriet.
Mary completes Frankenstein while she herself is
pregnant for the third time.
She gives birth to a daughter, Clara, on September
2.
1818
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Shelley writing Prometheus Unbound by Joseph Severn
Frankenstein, or the
Modern Prometheus is
published on March
11. Several reviewers
believe that Percy had
actually written the
novel.
Percy, meanwhile, is
working on some of his
most famous poetry,
including Prometheus
Unbound.
1818
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In the summer of 1818, Percy, Mary and
the children chase Byron around Europe,
trying to reconcile him with his daughter.
During a hurried journey in Italy in
September, Clara gets sick and dies.
1818
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On December 27, an infant Elena Adelaide
is born in Naples. When the child is
registered on February 27, 1819, the
parents are listed as Percy Shelley and
Marina Padurin. The identity of this child
remains a mystery. Some theories claim the
girl was Percy's illegitimate child; other
suggest that she was an infant he planned
to adopt in order to replace Clara.
1819
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The Shelleys continue to live in Italy.
Mary gets pregnant again early in the year.
On June 7, their son William dies of malaria.
“We came to Italy thinking to do Shelley’s health
good – but the climate is not by any means warm
enough to be of benefit to him, yet it is that that
has destroyed my two children” (Letter from June
29, 1819).
1819
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On November 12, Mary gives birth to the
only child that would survive her and her
husband; they named this second son Percy
Florence.
1820
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Mary resumes writing.
Prometheus Unbound is published.
The Shelley family is blackmailed over the
mysterious Elena Adelaide. That child dies
in June.
1821
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Shelley writes “A Defence of Poetry.”
On February 23, Shelley’s good friend John
Keats dies of tuberculosis in Rome.
Shelley writes Adonais in his memory.
1822
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Allegra Byron dies in April.
On May 12, Shelley receives his boat, the Don
Juan. He renames the boat Ariel.
Mary has a miscarriage on June 16.
Percy and Edward Williams sail to Leghorn on
July 1. On July 8, they set sail home to San
Terenzo.
Sometime after July 8, Percy Shelley drowns in a
sailing accident. His body is found on July 18.
1822
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Shelley is cremated near where his body
was found.
1823
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Percy Shelley's father initially refuses to
support his grandson unless Mary gives
him up; she refuses.
A second edition of Frankenstein is
published.
In July, Mary and her son Percy return to
England.
1824
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A volume of Percy's unpublished poems is
published, a volume edited by Mary with a
signed preface. Mary then learns that
Shelley's father will stop Percy Florence's
allowance until she both stops publication
and promises not to publish any more of
her husband's writings in Sir Timothy's
lifetime. Mary reluctantly agrees.
1826
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Mary's The Last Man is published.
It is an apocalyptic story of the end of the
world, a type of story that would become a
staple of science fiction.
It is also a thinly veiled portrait of both her
husband and Lord Byron.
1826
After the publication of The Last Man,
Shelley’s father temporarily cuts off his
support.
 Shelley’s son by his first wife dies, and
Percy Florence becomes Sir Timothy
Shelley’s only male heir.
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1838
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Percy Shelley's father finally relents on
allowing his son's works to be published,
although he does not want any mention
made of his son's life in an introduction or
biographical sketch.
1839
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Mary's four-volume edition of Poetical Words of
Percy Bysshe Shelley is published; she dedicates
the edition to Percy Florence. She gets around the
prohibition of Shelley's father with her preface and
notes to the individual poems.
She also edits and has published her husband's
Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and
Fragments.
1841
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Percy Florence graduates from Trinity
College.
1844
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Percy Shelley's father dies; Percy Florence
inherits his estate and title.
1845
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Someone claiming to be Lord Byron's son
tries unsuccessfully to blackmail Mary.
1851
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Mary dies on February 1.
Among her personal effects is found
Percy’s heart, wrapped in a copy of his
poem “Adonais” (written for his dead
friend John Keats).