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Shelley memorials : from authentic sources
Title
Shelley memorials : from authentic sources / edited by Lady Shelley ; to which is added an Essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, now first printed.
Publication
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1859.
Physical Description
vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 290, [2] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustration ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BAC PR5431 .S6 1859: Bound in publisher's dark blue-green cloth. Inscribed on title page: "Edward Lear, March 7, 1863, given me by Lady Shelley" and "F. Lushington, Templehurst, Janry 1888." Bookplate: Carolyn Wells.
Summary
"The letter to Lord Ellenborough [pp. 29-37] has never before been published ... the fragmentary Essay on Christianity, published at the end of this volume, was found amonst Shelley's papers." page vi.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Early life of Shelley
First love: Oxford: Expulsion
First marriage
Acquaintance with Godwin
Literary correspondence: 1812
Poetical labours and domestic sorrows
England and Switzerland: judgement of the Lord Chancellor: The "Revolt of Islam"
Italy: 1818
"Prometheus unbound:" the "Cenci"
The poet's life at Pisa nd Leghorn
Shelley and Byron at Pisa
The Bay of Spezia
Shelley's death and obsequies
Mary Shelley
Extracts from Mrs. Shelley's private journal
Essay on Christianity.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.
Authors' presentation inscriptions.
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Smith, Elder, and Co., publisher.
Great Britain England London.
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