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Shelley (PERCY BYSSHE English poet son)

PERCY BYSSHE, English poet, son of Timothy Shelley and grand- , son of T Timothy Shelley and grandson of Sir son of Sir Bysshe Shelley; born Horsham, England, Aug. 4, 1792; educated, Sion House (Brentford), Eton, and University College, Oxford. Of a delicate constitution he was early characterized by an extreme sensibility and a lively imagination, and by a resolute resistance to authority, custom, and every form of what he considered tyranny. At Eton he put mously, a scholastic thesis entitled "The Necessity of Atheism." The authorship being known he was challenged, and reto acknowledge or deny it, was at once expelled. After leaving the university university, he completed his poem of " begun some time previously, and privately printed in 1813. His first great poem, "Alastor, or the Spirit ," (1816), was followed in 1817 by the "Revolt of Islam," a poem PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY in the Spenserian stanza. In September, 1811, six months after his expulsion, he eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook, the daughter brook, the daughter of a retired inn- 16 years of age, his own age being 19. The marriage turned years of a wandering unsettled life Mrs. out out unhappily, and after nearly three Shelley returned with two children to her father's house. In November, 1816, she was deeply affected by this event, but soon committed suicide by drowning. Shelley after married Mary Godwin, with whom he had visited the Continent in 1814, and by whom he already had a child. By a suit in Chancery decided in 1817, Mr. obtained the guardianship of cal opinions and irregular views on marthe children, on the plea that his atheistiriage made the father unfit to be intrusted with them . Partly from his lungs being affected , and partly from anxiety lest he SHELDON newspaper, and was the author of numerous books including "His Brother's Keeper," "In His Steps," "Malcolm Kirk," "Edward Blake," "Born to Serve," etc.

In 1920 he was appointed editor of the "Christian Herald," New York.

SHELDON, EDWARD BREWSTER, an American playwright, born in Chicago, University in at once began in 1886. He graduated from Harvard the writing of plays. Among those were successfully produced "Salvation Nell" (1908); "The Nigger" (1909); "The High Road" (1912); "Garden of Paradise" (1915).