Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Oxford University

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Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. The Bodleian online exhibition 'Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family' explores how the reputation of this great literary family was shaped by the selective release of documents and manuscripts into the public domain. It also provides a fascinating insight into the real lives of a family that was blessed with genius but marred by tragedy.'

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Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow
DEC 2, 2010
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
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4 MIN
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley
DEC 2, 2010
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.
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3 MIN
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley
DEC 2, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
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3 MIN
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
DEC 2, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.
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8 MIN
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'
DEC 2, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni.
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2 MIN