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
Tony Walsh (poet) Concert, held in benefit of the attack's victims and their families. It was discussed alongside poems written about earlier atrocities committed in Manchester, including "The Masque of Anarchy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" on 24 May 2017. Walsh is married with two children, and lives in Manchester. His brother, Rev Mike Walsh, is a Minister of the United Reformed Church serving in South Manchester. Tony Walsh (poet) Tony Walsh (born 1965), also known as Longfella, is an English poet, performer and writer. Born into a family of partially Irish descent in east Manchester, the oldest