Lord Abinger's Shelley-Godwin collection in Bodleian Library [microform]. 1783-1858 [bulk 1788-1836]

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Lord Abinger's Shelley-Godwin collection in Bodleian Library [microform]. 1783-1858 [bulk 1788-1836]

Reproduces the some of the Bodleian's Shelley-Godwin manuscript collection belonging to Sir Percy Florence Shelley, later in the possession of James Richard Scarlett, 8th baron Abinger. Consists of correspondence and papers, including diaries and journals, relating predominantly to William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their circles.

26 microfilm reels : positive ; 35 mm.

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Godwin, William, 1756-1836

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to writ...

Bodleian Library.

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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...

Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, 1819-1889

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Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0001e8 Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00026c ...

Patton, Lewis.

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Abinger, James Richard Scarlett, Baron, 1914-2002

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