Harriet Shelley [née Westbrook]

(1795-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shelley, Harriet Westbrook, d. 1816 NRA: Shelley Harriet (c 1795-1816) nee Westbrook 1st wife of Percy Shelley LBT ID: HaShell1816 VIAF ID: 65248526 LOC ID: n50023016	B/BAP: 1795 DIED: 1816-11-09
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Shelley's first wife, with whom he eloped in 1811 and who committed suicide after he had transferred his affections to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
REFERENCES TO Harriet Shelley [née Westbrook]: Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Medwin, 21 October 1811 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 4 January 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Medwin, 16 June 1813 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Medwin, 21 June 1813 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Medwin, 28 June 1813 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 1: ¶ 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Medwin, 6 July 1813 in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) The Death of Shelley Found 1: ¶ n1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 1: ¶ 16 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Shelley. With a Criticism on his Genius. Found 1: ¶ 15 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXXIX Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 7 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 1: ¶ 17 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 106 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) First Marriage Found 2: ¶ 12 ¶ 20 Death of Harriet Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 15 Vol I Appendix Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 7: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 20 ¶ 1 Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 19