FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Committed suicide
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Killed a man and died in jail
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Drowned
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Died of a heart attack
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Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this letter six days after his first wife, Harriet, was ‘found drowned’ in the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. The letter is addressed to Mary Godwin, who became his second wife.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author.
Detailed explanation-3: -First wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Westbrook was born on 1 August 1795. Her father was the highly successful owner of a coffee house in Grovesnor Square and intended for his children to move up in the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -In July Hunt, with his family, joined the Shelleys at Leghorn (Livorno) to Shelley’s great delight, but a week later Shelley, Edward Elleker Williams and Charles Vivian were drowned when Shelley’s boat capsized off the coast near Pisa.
Detailed explanation-5: -On July 8th, 1822 the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the Bay of Lerici off the north-west coast of Italy when his small boat overturned in a squall. He was 29. Shelley and his wife Mary had settled in a cottage near Pisa.