![]() After their return to London, Shelley came into an annual income under his grandfather's will. Their combined journal, Six Weeks' Tour, reworked by Mary Shelley, appeared in 1817. ![]() During this journey Shelley wrote an unfinished novella, The Assassins (1814). Mary's young stepsister Claire Clairmont was also in the company. In 1814 Shelley traveled abroad with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the daughter of the philosopher and anarchist William Godwin (1756-1836). The poet's marriage to Harriet was a failure. In 1813 Shelley published his first important poem, the atheistic Queen Mab. The pair spent the following two years traveling in England and Ireland, distributing pamphlets and speaking against political injustice. Shelley's father withdrew his inheritance in favor of a small annuity, after he eloped with the 16-year old Harriet Westbrook, the daughter of a London tavern owner. ![]() In 1811 Shelley was expelled from the college for publishing The Necessity Of Atheism, which he wrote with Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Shelley attended Syon House Academy and Eton and in 1810 he entered the Oxford University College. His father, Timothy Shelley, was a Sussex squire and a member of Parliament. ![]() Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, into an aristocratic family. ![]()
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