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19 de ago. de 2013 · Harriet Westbrook was the first wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she eloped with at 16. She was abandoned by him for his lover Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and died in mysterious circumstances in 1816, while pregnant with an unknown father's child.
Harriet Shelley. First wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Westbrook was born on 1 August 1795. Her father was the highly successful owner of a coffee house in Grovesnor Square and intended for his children to move up in the world. Harriet was sent to a fine girls' school in Clapham, south of the Thames, where she became a friend of the ...
views updated. Westbrook, Harriet (1795–1816) Wife of Percy Shelley. Name variations: Harriet Shelley. Born Harriet Westbrook in 1795; drowned herself in Serpentine River, Nov 1816; dau. of a retired tavern keeper; m. Percy Bysshe Shelley (the poet), Aug 1811; children: daughter Ianthe Shelley (b. 1813); Charles Shelley (b. 1814).
Harriet Westbrook (1 de agosto de 1795-9 de diciembre de 1816) fue la primera esposa del poeta romántico Percy Bysshe Shelley .
- 9 de diciembre de 1816 (21 años)
- Ahogamiento
- 1 de agosto de 1795
22 de abr. de 2014 · Almost six years earlier, on the bitterly cold January day when she first met eighteen-year-old Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Westbrook had been a strikingly pretty, fifteen-year-old pupil at Mrs. Fenning’s boarding school in Clapham; he was brother to two of her schoolmates, Mary and Hellen.
Marriage to Harriet Westbrook. In late December 1810, Shelley had met Harriet Westbrook, a pupil at the same boarding school as Shelley's sisters. They corresponded frequently that winter and also after Shelley had been expelled from Oxford.
Place of origin: Earth. Children: Percy Shelley's child. Spouse: Percy Shelley. First mentioned in: Mary's Story. In 1814, Percy Shelley abandoned his wife and their child for 16-year-old Mary Shelley. ( AUDIO: Mary's Story ) Behind the scenes. Harriet Westbrook was Percy Shelley's first wife.
