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
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