Percy Florence Shelley Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood left him as the only surviving child as his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822. His parents lived in Italy for several years, until his father drowned off Livorno, whereupon his mother moved back to England with him. Mary Shelley never remarried; Percy Florence had no further siblings. He joined Harrow School in 1832, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1837. Shelley inherited
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