Percy Bysshe Shelley Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man. He replied: On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his thirtieth birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia while returning from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his sailing boat, the "Don Juan." He was returning from having set up "The Liberal" with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. The name "Don Juan", a compliment to Byron, was chosen by Edward John Trelawny, a member of the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle. However, according to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator horror novels published in 1810 and 1811, his atheistic worldview, his antipathy to church and state, his 1818 Preface to "Frankenstein", and his connection to the secret anti-Catholic organization, the Illuminati. Hart argues that Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the author of "Frankenstein" (1818). Percy Bysshe Shelley did not want his authorship of "Frankenstein" to be known to the public, so he attributed authorship to Mary Shelley, who was 18 years old when the novel was begun. Hart focused on the inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and outright contradictions in the 1818 Preface, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and