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ELOPING
AGAIN???
By
Anis
Syazwani
(1520674)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
turned heads again
and this time isn’t so
different to the last.
We have heard of the
news that the poet
This shocked the
behind Queen Mab
public as Shelley is a
has eloped to
supoorter of the
Edinburgh with
principle of Godwin’s
sixteen-year-old
free love that is not
Harriet Westbrook in
in favour of marriage
the past. The poet
especially one
himself was at the
announced by the
age of nineteen. The
church. But Shelley
poet had eloped back
seems to claim it was
in 1811 and had gotten
for Harriet’s
married to each
happiness. But could
other.
this man stay within
the confines of
marriage when he
had been supporting
free love?