FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Martha Morse
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Sarah Gimbals
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Harriet West brook
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Shelley had married Harriet Westbrook five years before, when he was 19 and she still at school. She was a friend of Shelley’s younger sisters, and he met her soon after being sent down from Oxford in early 1811.
Detailed explanation-3: -In November 1816, Fanny, Mary’s half-sister, committed suicide. A few weeks later, in December 1816, Shelley’s first wife Harriet also killed herself. Within two weeks, Percy and Mary were married in St. Mildred’s Church in London on December 30, 1816.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father’s political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy’s child.