Maria Gisborne manuscript material : 1 item, 1832-1833

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Maria Gisborne manuscript material : 1 item, 1832-1833

· Entries in the Gisborne Letterbook : 1832-1833 : (S'ANA 0545) : in John Gisborne's hand, the entire notebook including 12 (A-L) copies and extracts of important letters by himself, his wife, and correspondents. The Maria Gisborne material is on the subject of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham, and includes : (A) To Jeremy Bentham : 1 letter : 17 May 1832 : describing the principal events of her life since from the time he last saw her. -- (C) To Mary Shelley, novelist : 1 letter : 1 Aug 1832. -- (D) To Henry Reveley, marine engineer (her son) : 1 letter extract : [ca. 1 Aug 1832]. -- (F) To Sir John Bowring, politician and writer : 1 letter : 23 Aug 1832. -- (H) : "Recollections of Jeremy Bentham put together by Maria at the request of Dr. Bowring" : 11 Sep 1832. Also included is an extract of a letter from Mary Shelley to Maria Gisborne dated 21 Aug 1832 (E). For the remaining entries, see records for John Gisborne manuscript material and Sir John Bowring manuscript material.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158518

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Gisborne, Maria, 1770-1836

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Epithet: friend of Shelley, wife of J Gisborne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000064 Maria Gisborne [née James; other married name Reveley], friend of William Godwin and Mary and Percy Shelley. In her teens, she studied painting under the tutelage of Angelica Kauffman in Rome. She met William Godwin through her first husband, William Reveley, an English acrhitect with whom she had one son, Henry. Whe...

Reveley, Henry Willey, 1789-1875.

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (b. 30 August 1797, Somers Town, London-d. 1 February 1851, London, England) was an English novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She also wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley....

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...

Gisborne, John, d. 1836.

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John Gisborne, friend of Percy and Mary Shelley. Little is known about the life of John Gisborne save that he was often unemployed, though he was trained as a merchant in his youth. In 1800 he married Maria Reveley, a friend of William Godwin's, and together they moved to Italy in the following year. The Gisbornes became important friends of the Shelleys in 1818 when the young couple visited them at their Leghorn home. In 1821, John and Maria returned to England, but maintained correspondence wi...

Bentham, Jerémy 1748-1832

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Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and reformer. From the description of Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1828 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76698683 From the guide to the Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items, 1784-ca. 1828, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Jurist and philosopher. From the description of Jeremy Bentham memoranda, 1830. (Unknown). Wo...