Minna G. O'Brien Letter 1921

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Minna G. O'Brien Letter 1921

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Letter from Minna O'Brien, at The British Institute of Florence, to Mrs. Walter E. Peck. Letter discusses Florence, sculpture, the poet Shelley, and a recent "small revolution" involving bombs, machine guns and soldiers.

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British Institute of Florence

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O'Brien, Minna G.

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Nothing can be discovered of Minna O'Brien, the writer of the letter, other than what is given in the document (she was married to Edward, who evidently wrote poetry). Walter E. Peck was a British literary critic and biographer who edited several volumes of Shelley's poetry as well as a biography, Shelley: His Life and Work (1927). The letter is directed to his wife. From the guide to the Minna G. O'Brien Letter, 1921, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse Unive...

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...