Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
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Percy Bysshe 1792–1822, English poet.
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a male or female given name.
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Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia
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Writing mediums composed original work dictated by dead authors, among them Shakespeare, Shelley, and Poe.
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But having discussed it at length, researched and explored all the possible options and seen first hand the extent of suffering he's endured, Shelley said her view on assisted dying has changed.
From BBC
Keats perished at 25, Shelley at 29 and Byron at 36.
Mr. McDougall notes that Mary Shelley “had seen it all coming” decades before Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche warned that Europe was corroding itself from within.
"Small towns are small towns. We look out for each other. It's not like living in a city where you don't know your neighbor," said Shelley Quist.
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