Harriet Collins Boinville manuscript material : 1 item 1814

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Harriet Collins Boinville manuscript material : 1 item 1814

Harriet Collins Boinville, of Bracknell. Mrs. Boinville was a member of a radical social circle in England in the early 19th century that included the Godwins and the Shelleys. She was greatly admired by Shelley, and he appeared at one point to have been in love with her daughter Cornelia. Mrs. Boinville's brother-in-law was John Frank Newton, who wrote the vegetarian tract The Return to Nature (1811). To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, barrister and friend of Shelley : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Mar 1814 : (HG'ANA 0003) : among other things, discusses Shelley after his recent travels.

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Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Boinville, Harriet Collins

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Harriet Collins Boinville, of Bracknell. Mrs. Boinville was a member of a radical social circle in England in the early 19th century that included the Godwins and the Shelleys. She was greatly admired by Shelley, and he appeared at one point to have been in love with her daughter Cornelia. Mrs. Boinville's brother-in-law was John Frank Newton, who wrote the vegetarian tract The Return to Nature (1811). From the guide to the Harriet Collins Boinville manuscript material :...