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 Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator is a 2013 book by Scott D. de Hart, in which the author argues that the poet, dramatist, essayist, and Gothic horror novelist Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the actual author of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). An alternate title of the book is "Shelley Unbound: Uncovering Frankenstein's True Creator". Scott D. de Hart, a graduate of Oxford University with a PhD. in nineteenth century English Literature and legal disputes, examined and investigated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s scientific knowledge and experimentation, his two Gothic