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Definition of Shelley

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

Definition of Shelley

1. Proper noun. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹

3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), transferred use of the surname, mostly before 1930. ¹

4. Proper noun. (surnames female given name) used since the 1930s, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Shelley

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1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"shelley (1). [1815, APRIL 20, 23, 27.] More scope given to the intention in Wills than in Deeds. • DEVISE to trustees for 99 years upon the trusts ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"Gem» from shelley, illustrated ; an Ode to the Wild West Wind, and tho Question. ... The Beauties of Percy Bysshe shelley, with a biographical Preface. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"When she was in Switzerland with shelley and Byron in 1816 (see below), ... The result of this project was that Mrs. shelley wrote frankenstein, ..."

4. Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot (1879)
"The few intimates of shelley seem inclined to go to their graves without ... The reason is, that shelley has combined the use of the two great modes by ..."

5. Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot (1879)
"The few intimates of shelley seem inclined to go to their graves without ... The reason is, that shelley has combined the use .of the two great modes by ..."

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