Born in 1792, drowned at Spezia, Italy, in 1822; educated at
Eton and Oxford, being expelled from the latter for
publishing a pamphlet on atheism; married Harriet Westbrook
in 1811; met Mary Woolstonecraft in 1814, and went to live
with her in Switzerland, abandoning Harriet; returned to
England in 1815 and settled near Windsor Forest; joined
Byron in Switzerland in 1816; in the same year, Harriet
having drowned herself, he married Mary; his body consumed
on a funeral pyre at Spezia in the presence of Leigh Hunt,
Byron and Trelawny; published "Queen Mab" in 1813; "Alastor"
in 1816; "Prometheus Unbound" in 1820; his works collected
by his wife in 1830.
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