Friday, July 12, 2013

Fascinating facts surrounding the romance of Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley


 
Percy Bysshe Shelley appears to have left a trail of romantic destruction behind him with suicides and threats of suicide, but his second wife Mary was his one true love. Their life together certainly seems to have been a romantic one apart from the drama.  Their lifestyle had bohemian facets and they lived for their writing, sometimes in poverty sometimes in style,
associating with other writers and poets and philosophers. 
The period seems to have been a forerunner of the 1960s in some ways, a
time of social protest, of knocking down the establishment and with a foretaste of "free love." among the intelligentsia.

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