Shelley
Shelley names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Shelley PERCY BYSSHE, English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PERCY BYSSHE, English poet , son of T Timothy Shelley and grandson 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 refusing either to acknowledge or deny it, was at once expelled. After leaving the university , he completed his poem of "Queen Mab, " begun some time previously , and privately printed in 1813. His first great poem, "Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude ," (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 of a retired innkeeper. She was 16 years of age, his own age being 19. The marriage turned years of a wandering unsettled life Mrs. 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. Westbrook 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 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, in 1886. He graduated from Harvard University in at once began the writing of plays. Among those were successfully produced "Salvation Nell" (1908); "The Nigger" (1909); "The High Road" (1912); "Garden of Paradise" (1915).
Shelley MARY (GODWIN)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY (GODWIN), an English author, second wife of the poet Shelley; bor born in London, Aug. 30, 1797. Her first story, " Frankenstein" (1818); won for her a place among the imaginative writers of England; it was followed by "Valperga ," a historical romance (1823); "The Last Man" (1826); "Lodore" (1835); " Falkner" (1837). She died in London, Feb. 21, 1851.
Shelley HARRY ROWE, an American composer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARRY ROWE, an American composer , born at New Haven, Conn., in 1858. He studied music in New York, London, and Paris, and in 1899 became organist of the Fifth Avenue Bapptist Church, New York. His works include symphonies , a symphonic poem, several cantatas, and many songs and pieces for the organ.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 gave Percy Bysshe Shelley a long life-and-works entry and his wife Mary just sixty words, a note that "Frankenstein" (1818) "won for her a place among the imaginative writers of England." That balance has reversed: since the 1970s Mary Shelley has been read as a major novelist and "Frankenstein" as a founding work of science fiction, endlessly filmed and now more widely read than all her husband's verse; her suppressed novella "Mathilda" was not printed until 1959, more than a century after her death. Percy's reputation has moved too, from the delicate sensitive of the Victorian view toward the political radical of "Queen Mab" and "The Mask of Anarchy," whose lines were quoted by Chartists and are still quoted at protests. Collier's own text is garbled where it places the atheism pamphlet at Eton: "The Necessity of Atheism" was printed in 1811 while Shelley was at Oxford, and it was for that he was expelled.
Written for this edition, 2026.