My Dear Sir,—I shall be most happy to see you,
at six o’clock, to dinner, to-morrow. I think this plan is the best.
Mrs. Shelley unites with me in best
remembrances to all your family.
Thomas Medwin (1788-1869)
Lieutenant of dragoons who was with Byron and Shelley at Pisa; the author of Conversations of Lord Byron (1824) and The Life of
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (1847).
Harriet Shelley [née Westbrook] (1795-1816)
Shelley's first wife, with whom he eloped in 1811 and who committed suicide after he had
transferred his affections to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English poet, with Byron in Switzerland in 1816; author of Queen
Mab (1813), The Revolt of Islam (1817), The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Adonais (1821).
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Author: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869
Title:The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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