Percy Bysshe Shelley pocket was a small book of Keats' poetry. Upon hearing this, Byron (never one to give compliments) said of Shelley: "I never met a man who wasn't a beast in comparison to him" . The day after the news of his death reached England, the Tory newspaper "The Courier" printed: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned; "now" he knows whether there is God or no." A reclining statue of Shelley's body, depicted as washed up on the shore, created by sculptor Edward Onslow Ford at the behest of Shelley's daughter-in-law, Jane, Lady Shelley, is the centrepiece
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