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 r...
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
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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.'
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. Initially he seems more sorry for hi...
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 Pi...
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 Kea...
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. At the ti...
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied out in his best hand, with the guitar he gave to Jane Willia...
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind
Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819. Technically it is a series of four sonnets writ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC. Rams...
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in Engla...
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine ...