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Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry

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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
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Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont.
They were pursued by Mrs Godwin (Claire's mother), who caught up with them the following day at Calais, but failed to persuade them to return. On 2 August Shelley, Mary and Claire reached Paris, where they purchased this notebook. Shelley wrote up their dramatic flight from England, the stormy crossing (during which he began 'to reason upon death') and their arrival in France. Mary makes her first contribution to the journal by lightly completing a sentence: 'Mary was there. Shelley was also with me.'

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Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems.
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
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Henry Cockburn
Keywords
journal
shelley's ghost
biography
mary shelley. percy bysshe shelley
history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:05:05

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