First wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Westbrook was born on 1 August 1795. Her father was the highly successful owner of a coffee house in Grovesnor ...
Harriet Westbrook
Percy Bysshe Shelleys kone
Født: 1. august 1795
Død: 1816, The Serpentine, London, Storbritannien
Ægtefælle: Percy Bysshe Shelley (g. 1811–1816)
Barnebarn: Charles Edward Jeffries Esdaile
Forældre: John Westbrook
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What happened to Percy's first wife?
In late November or early December, having written a despondent farewell addressed to her father, her sister, and her husband, she walked the short distance from her lodgings to Hyde Park and drowned herself in the Serpentine River. At the time of her death she was just twenty-one years old.
What happened to Percy Shelley's children with Harriet?
After Harriett Westbrook's suicide in 1816, a custody battle ensued, and Percy Bysshe Shelley lost custody of Ianthe and Charles, the children of his first marriage. The court used P. B. Shelley's radical politics and professed atheism, as expressed in his poem “Queen Mab” (1813), as grounds for denying custody.
What happened to Shelley's daughter?
In a glaring example of “It's not the crime, but the cover up,” his duplicity and selfishness not only led to the death of his year-old daughter, Clara or “Ca,” by Mary Shelley, but through chilling neglect, the love child he sired with an unknown woman in 1818.
How many children did Percy have with Harriet?
Shelley had two children by his first wife Harriet: Eliza Ianthe Shelley (1813–1876) and Charles Bysshe Shelley (1814–1826).
25. okt. 2020 · Shelley had married Harriet Westbrook five years before, when he was 19 and she still at school. She was a friend of Shelley's younger ...
9. nov. 2016 · The body of Shelley's wife, Harriet, had been found floating in the Serpentine. It appeared that she, too, had killed herself.
Harriet Shelley (born Harriet Westbrook), wife of the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and mother of his only living descendants, has been treated cruelly by ...
3. okt. 2022 · Harriet Westbrook was born in 1795 into a healthy family environment and a promising future. Her father was the owner of a profitable and popular coffeehouse and tavern in Mayfair, London. John Westbrook wanted his children to move up in the world, so he enrolled Harriet at Mrs Fenning's Boarding School in Clapham.
10. dec. 2016 · On this day, December 10th, two hundred years ago, the body of Harriet Shelley, née Westbrook, was recovered from the Serpentine in Hyde Park.
First wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. they met in January, 1815 and he eloped with her to Scotland on 25 August 1811. He married her three days later, ...
First wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together they had 2 children, Elizabeth Ianthe (1813–1876) & Charles (1814-1826). While Harriet was pregnant with ...
27. apr. 2014 · My contribution concerns the short and tragic life of Harriet Shelley, first wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and is reproduced below. It ...
30. jun. 2024 · Harriet was born 1 August 1795, the daughter of John Westbrook and Ann (Elliott) Westbrook, and was christened on the 27th August 1795 at St.
