Percy Bysshe Shelley biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author Name:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Born As:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Other Names:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Born:

4 Aug 1792

Died:

8 Jul 1822




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Romantic Poet and Atheist                          
                          
Mother Elizabeth Pilfold
Father Sir Timothy Shelley - the eldest of seven children - John, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Shelley, Mary, Hellen and Margaret.

First wife Harriet Westbrook - two children, Ianthe and Charles
Second wife Mary Godwin - three children William and Clara Everina, both died when babies, and Percy.
Also daughter Elena Adelaide Shelley. Speculaton who the mother was - it may have been a woman named Marina Padurin, but some scholars speculate that her true mother was actually Claire Clairmont or Elise Foggi.