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
Mary Shelley (film) Kingdom on July 6, 2018, by Curzon Artificial Eye. The film tells the story of writer Mary Shelley's first love, and her romantic relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which inspired her to write "Frankenstein". "Mary Shelley" (changed from the original title, "A Storm In the Stars", in January 2017) is based on an original screenplay by Australian screenwriter Emma Jensen. Jensen received development funding from Screen NSW and Screen Australia to develop the screenplay to first draft and her US agents, United Talent Agency, sold the screenplay to US producer Amy Baer. On February 28, 2014, director Haifaa