shelley

Definition of Shelley in English :

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Noun

1. mary godwin wollstonecraft shelley, mary shelley, mary wollstonecraft shelley, shelley

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

2. percy bysshe shelley, shelley

Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)

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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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noun

1.

Mary (Wollstonecraft) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley

2.

Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

Shelley

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noun

a feminine name: var. Shelly

1.

ˈMary Wollstoneˌcraft (ˈwʊlstənˌkræft ) ; woolˈstənkraftˌ) 1797-1851; Eng. novelist: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin: second wife of Percy

2.

Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ ) ; bish) 1792-1822; Eng. poet

Shelley

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British romantic poet whose works include "To a Skylark" (1820), the lyric drama Prometheus Unbound (1820), and "Adonais" (1821), an elegy to John Keats.

British writer best known for the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.

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