Shelley

[shel-ee]

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noun

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
Percy Bysshe 1792–1822, English poet.
a male or female given name.

Shelley

/ ˈʃɛ��ɪ /

noun

Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

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Shelley told BBC Spotlight she felt "lonely" and "pathetic" after being dropped off at the door of the Ulster Hospital psychiatric ward without her daughter, but said staff tried their best.

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Another star we sadly lost in the last year, Shelley Duval was best known for her roles in film like The Shining, Annie Hall and Nashville.

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Parents Michael and Shelley would be ferrying him from tennis practice to the basketball court most nights a week.

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One bonus: There’s some of Saul in his character, Shelley Levene.

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Beyond that in the next two seasons, Beale says, the company will present the premiere of an opera by Shelley Washington as well as some traditional opera.

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