PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, in Sussex into a political and wealthy family. He was the oldest of seven children. Most of his childhood he moved throughout Field Place, Horsham, and Sussex. These appear to be the happiest years of his life. He attended Sion House Academy where he got bullied. He stayed in Sion for two years then enrolled into Eton in 1804. Uninterested in sports, living a deep imaginative …showed first 75 words of 380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 380 total…Shelley combined their journals for H! istory of a Six Weeks Tour (1817). Shelley and Mary went back to London. They got a house on the edge of Windsor Great Park. Here he wrote Alastor (1816), a non-political poem of haunting beauty, which first brought him general notice and reviews (Oxford Companion of English Literature, 895). The summer of 1816 was spent on Lake Geneva with Byron, Claire’s daughter’s father. Mary began Frankenstein that summer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**