Percy Bysshe Shelley October. On 10December 1816 the body of Shelley's estranged wife Harriet was found in an advanced state of pregnancy, drowned in the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. Shelley had made generous provision for Harriet and their children in his will and had paid her a monthly allowance as had her father. It is thought that Harriet, who had left her children with her sister Eliza and had been living alone under the name of Harriet Smith, mistakenly believed herself to have been abandoned by her new lover, 36-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Maxwell, who had been deployed abroad, after a landlady
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator is a 2013 book by Scott D. de Hart, in which the author argues that the poet, dramatist, essayist, and Gothic horror novelist Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the actual author of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). An alternate title of the book is "Shelley Unbound: Uncovering Frankenstein's True Creator". Scott D. de Hart, a graduate of Oxford University with a PhD. in nineteenth century English Literature and legal disputes, examined and investigated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s scientific knowledge and experimentation, his two Gothic