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Revision as of 23:43, 18 October 2012
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a English Romantic poet and playwright during the early 19th century. He was the husband of Mary Shelley, best known as the author of the science based horror story Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, who later became a companion of the Eighth Doctor. His circle of friends included his fellow Romantic poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, one of the first authors to write about vampires. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
The Fifth Doctor once expressed a desire to meet him. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear) In his eighth incarnation, he would later encounter both Shelley and his wife in the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816. (AUDIO: Mary's Story) Mary regarded her husband as being her soulmate. (AUDIO: Army of Death)
He had invested money in the Turk prior to 1816. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
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Behind the scenes
- Although Percy and Mary Shelley were depicted as husband and wife in June 1816 in AUDIO: Mary's Story, they did not actually get married until 30 December of that year.
