Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means the least feature of this new program is its commentator, Shelley Mydans. With her husband, LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans, she has covered most of the warfronts of the world for TIME & LIFE. As a result, she has seen more of the world in the last six years than almost any other woman journalist...
...most serious charge against Mary was that she had lured Shelley away from his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Harriet was then carrying a child of Shelley's. After Shelley, Mary and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, had set up housekeeping in London, the Prophet of Perfect...
Love begged Harriet to come and live with them. He suggested that she might share him with Mary as generously as Author Smith & Others show that Shelley was sharing Mary with his old Oxford chum, Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Instead, Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine...
...important part of Mary's rehabilitation program was to hush up and tone down this history, while shifting the blame for the episode from Shelley to Harriet. In this ambitious task she found an ambiguous and wholly unexpected ally-a U.S. blackmailer known to the authorities as De Gibler. Among the intelligentsia he was known as "Major" George Gordon Byron. He claimed to be Lord Byron's son by a secret marriage...
...Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh. He was shown the door. He had more success in peddling forged Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...