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: A Life Story Shelley: A Life Story Shelley: A Life Story is a 1946 biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edmund Blunden. The work was favorably reviewed and has been called the best life of Shelley. "Shelley: A Life Story" received a positive review in "Time" magazine in 1947. The reviewer noted that the book had been "greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet", adding that "Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity—not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which