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The bottle-blonde bombshell studied five languages, played the violin and the piano, and reportedly had an IQ in the 160s.
These words, first written by famed English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, are now the mantra ... you may identify yourself with one of the characters in the story, or maybe one of them reminds ...
The beauty with Nagenda’s prose is that it is thinly veiled poetry. His book also reveals him as a grammarian who dots the ...
Richard Bradbury’s play Regarding Shelley lets us glimpse, with a confident cast, what happens when the poet and essayist ...
It interweaves her little-known life journey with that of her most famous character, the “creature” created ... not just ‘Frankenstein,’ and not just her marriage to [Percy Bysshe] Shelley and the ...
Opening at Ilkley Playhouse this week, is Helen Edmundson’s roller coaster of a biographical play, detailing two years of Mary Shelley’s life with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ... (and Mrs Godwin ...
He was born with a problem in his right leg, which left him with a lifelong limp that affected his character and work ... He traveled to Geneva, where he befriended the writer Percy Bysshe Shelley and ...
The outlier—at least in terms of its stormy energy—is Tander's vivid reimagining of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Cloud on Nursling ... nuances—imbues the album with a progressive character ...
As the writer and critic Fiona Sampson begins her excellent introduction, technically it was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who arrived in Bath: the 19-year-old lover of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... in the ...
As 80s pop songs melded into a recording of Margaret Thatcher, with coloured lighting flickering over the lone figure of Percy Shelley (Rob Monteiro ... portrayal of 19th-century writers Shelley (here ...
MARY Shelley, the author of the groundbreaking Gothic novel Frankenstein, is often associated with the tempestuous lives and tragic deaths of the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.