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Books on Shelley: Biographies

Barker-Benfield, B.C., comp. Shelley's Guitar: A Bodleian Exhibition of Manuscripts, First Editions and Relics of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1992.

Cameron, Kenneth Neill. Shelley: The Golden Years. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1974.

---. The Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical. New York: Macmillan, 1950.

Crook, Nora and Derek Guiton. Shelley's Venomed Melody. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.

Dowden, Edward. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 2 vols. London: K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1886.

Fuller, Jean. Shelley: A Biography. London: Cape, 1968.

Hawkins, Desmond. Shelley's First Love. London: Kyle Cathie; Hamden, CT: Archon, 1992.

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 2 vols. London: Moxon, 1858.

Holmes, Richard. Shelley: The Pursuit. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.

Höhne, Horst. In Pursuit of Love: The Short and Troublesome Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Hughes, A. M. D. The Nascent Mind of Shelley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.

Ingpen, Roger. Shelley in England: New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1917.

Mac-Carthy, Denis Florence. Shelley's Early Life from Original Sources with Curious Incidents, Letters, and Writings, Now First Published or Collected. London: John Camden Hotten, 1872.

Medwin, Thomas. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 2 vols. London: Newby, 1847.

---. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. A New Edition printed from a copy copiously amended and extended by the Author and left unpublished at his death, with an Introduction and Commentary by H. Buxton Forman. New York: Oxford UP, 1913.

Mullan, John (ed.). Lives of the Great Romantics by their Contemporaries. Vol 1. London and Brooksfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 1996.

Norman, Sylva. Flight of the Skylark. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1954.

O'Neill, Michael. Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.

Peck, Walter Edwin. Shelley: His Life and Work. 2 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

Raine, Kathleen. Shelley. Baltimore: Penguin, 1973.

Reiman, Donald H. Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: Twayne, 1969.

Shelley, Jane Gibson, Lady (ed.). Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources. Boston: Tickner and Fields, 1859.

St. Claire, William. The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family. London and Boston: 1989.

Tomalin, Claire. Shelley and his World. New York: Scribner, 1980.

White, Newman Ivey. Shelley. 2 vols. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940; London: Secker & Warburg, 1947.

Wright, David, ed. Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author (1878). By Edward J. Trelawny. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.

Wolfe, Humbert. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley as Comprised in The Life of Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Recollections of Shelley & Byron by Edward John Trelawny, Memoirs of Shelley by Thomas Love Peacock. 2 vols. London: J. M. Dent, 1933.

Woof, Robert. Shelley: An Ineffectual Angel. Grasmere: 1992.