Edward Bibbens Aveling manuscript material : 1 item 1886

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...

Shelley Society

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Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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The controversial bibliographer Harry Buxton Forman was best known for his work on Shelley, Keats, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as for collaborating with Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937) in the creation of numerous literary forgeries. From the description of Harry Buxton Forman volumes, ca. 1892-1907. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 82181516 Harry Buxton Forman, English bibliographer and forger. He wrote a great deal of critical and bibliographic literary...

Preston, Sydney E

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Aveling, Edward B., 1849-1898

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Edward Aveling was an English author, translator, and activist. He contributed articles on scientific themes to journals, and was influenced by the theories of Charles Darwin, eventually writing several books about him. An active Socialist, he helped translate Das Kapital into English and toured America with Eleanor Marx, but conflicts between Aveling and Britain's Socialist Party limited his influence. From the description of Edward Aveling introduction to Tess of the D'Urbevilles, ...