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Title(s):
Shelley memorials : from authentic sources / edited by Lady Shelley ; to which is added an Essay on Christianity, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, now first printed.
Published/Created:
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
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5431 .S6 1859
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5272543
Classification:
Books
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.
"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.
Subject Terms:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 -- Presentation inscription from Lady Jane Shelley.
Lushington, Franklin, Sir, 1823-1901 -- Ownership.
Poets, English -- Biography.
Shelley, Lady (Jane), 1820-1899 -- Presentation inscription to Edward Lear.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.
Authors' presentation inscriptions.
Contributors:
Shelley, Lady (Jane), 1820-1899, editor.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Essay on Christianity.
Smith, Elder, and Co., publisher.
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  • 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.

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