From a pencil Sketch by Mary W. Shelley
"The Cremation of Shelley"
(16 August 1822)
from a painting by Louis-Edward Fournier
[Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool]
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)- Shelley's 2nd wife, author of Frankenstein etc.
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Vol.1 (link to google books)
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Vol.2 (link to google books) by Jefferson Hogg, pub. 1858 (in 4 volumes but only 2 finished). This is a much critcised biography, more about Hogg than Shelley- see Salt's 'examination' of it below.
George Bernard Shaw on Shelley (html) - extracts from the diaries, 1881-1892 mostly about the Shelley Society
Shelley - from The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams M.A., 1883.
A Vindication of Natural Diet (original 1813) (link to archive.org) - new edition from 1884, with a preface by Henry S. Salt and W.E.A. Axon.
The Shelley Society's papers. 1886-1888 (link to archive.org)
Inaugural address, by the Rev. S. A. Brooke.
On the vicissitudes of Queen Mab, by H. Buxton Forman.
Shelley's view of nature contrasted with Darwin's, by Mathilde Blind.
A study of Prometheus unbound, by W. M. Rossetti, pt. I.
Note on The triumph of life, by John Todhunter.
Shelley, Peterloo and the Mask of anarchy, by H. Buxton Forman.
The hermit of Marlow, by H. Buxton Forman.
Shelley and Lord Beaconsfield, by Dr. Richard Garnett.
A study of Prometheus unbound, by W. M. Rossetti, pt. II-III.
Appendix: The Shelley society's first and second annual reports, by W. M. Rossetti.
Shelley and socialism, by Edward Aveling and Eleanor M. Aveling, pt. I.
Shelley's faith, by Kineton Parkes.
Shelley's metre, by Rev. J. B. Mayor.
Shelley's philosophy of love, by Arthur Dillon.
Shelley's nature poetry, by Henry Sweet.
A study of Shelley's Julian and Maddalo, by H. S. Salt.
Note on the "Identification of The Aziola of Shelley," by H. T. Wharton.
Rosalind and Helen, by H. Buxton Forman.
Shelley and the marriage question, by John Todhunter.
Hogg's Life of Shelley, by H. S. Salt
Shelley's Vegetarianism (html) - short article by Henry S, Salt , for The Vegetarian Annual , 1887
A Shelley Primer (link to archive.org) - by Henry S. Salt 1887
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Monograph (in 15 Chapters) (html) by Henry S. Salt, 1888
An Examination of Hogg's 'Life of Shelley' (html) - article by Henry S. Salt, 1889
Shelley's Vegetarianism (link to archive.org) - by W.E.A.Axon, 1890
Shelley's principles; has time refuted or confirmed them? (link to archive.org ) by Henry S. Salt, 1892
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and pioneer; a biographical study (link to archive.org) - by Henry S. Salt, 1896
Letters
Letters from Shelley to Jane Clairmont (1816-1822) (link to archive.org) - privately printed 1889
Letters from Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.1, 1811 (link to archive.org) - privately printed 1890
Letters from Shelley (& some by Harriet) to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.2, 1812 (link to archive.org) - privately printed 1890
Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1812 & 1816 (link to archive.org) - privately printed 1891
Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1816 to 1820 (link to archive.org) - privately printed 1891
Letters from Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1810/11) (link to archive.org) - with notes by W. M. Rossetti and H. Buxton Forman, 1897
Later books and articles:
Shelley at Oxford (1810/11) (link to archive.org) - by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Shelley's friend at Oxford. Originally published as a series of magazine articles in 1832/33. This edition from 1904 with an introduction by R. A. Streatfield. (In 1858 this was included in Hogg's much discredited 'Life of Shelley' - see the above article by Henry S. Salt)
Peacock's memoir of Shelley, with Shelley's letters to Peacock (link to archive.org) - Thomas Love Peacock 1785-1866 - edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith, 1909
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (link to archive.org) - ed by George Woodberry, 1901
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A., 1914 (plain text .txt files) with Prefaces and notes by Mrs. Shelley:
Volume 1 (.txt 1.25mb) - Major poems
Volume 2 (.txt 404k) - Short Poems and Fragments
Volume 3 (.txt 663k) - Translations, Epigrams and Juvenilia
Selected prose works of Shelley (link to archive.org) - edited by Henry S. Salt, 1915 - The necessity of atheism -- A letter to Lord Ellenborough -- A refutation of deism -- A defence of poetry -- Essay on the literature, the arts, and the manners of the Athenians -- On life -- On a future state -- Essay on Christianity
Shelley and Vegetarianism (html) - A brief study of the English poet's attitude to vegetarianism (IVU News Winter 1996/7)
A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.
Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and some links to PDF documents may no longer function . Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.
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