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I may never know why this lane is called Shelley's, to us both it will always be the greenest lane in Sussex, because it leads to the special secret I spoke of.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923
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After the shootings in the county, Dyess drove into the city to attorney Jerrold Shelley's office, arriving a few minutes after 9 a.m.
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She said Shelley's wife also worked in the office, and that they have two grown children.
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The events that ensue seem as jolting today as they were to the couple's early 19th-century contemporaries: an adulterous escape from London to Europe, the births and deaths of two children, a sojourn in Italy with the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" Lord Byron which included a famous night of telling ghost stories, and Percy Shelley's tragic death at sea.
Darkness Too Visible Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Too often, his narratives of literary inheritance devolve into biblical lists, the specificity of influence quite lost: Robert Browning was Shelley's principal heir as Tennyson was Keats's.
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She said a witness told her what happened inside Shelley's office.
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The original title of Shelley's novel was "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus."
Visions of Sci-Fi Writers Inspire Director Ridley Scott to Jump In Barbara Chai 2011
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He's a very, very nice person, said Bridget Marquez, an office manager at the Fila Smith Law Firm, a law office in a building that shares a parking lot with Shelley's office.
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Speakeasy Ridley Scott Says He'll Direct 'Blade Runner' Sequel The premiere episode Wednesday explores Shelley's vision of Frankenstein, and how her ideas 200 years ago foretold future scientific research in tissue and organ transplants, spinal cord stimulation, and cardiac defibrillation.
Visions of Sci-Fi Writers Inspire Director Ridley Scott to Jump In Barbara Chai 2011
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Dyess then went into Shelley's office and shot him multiple times, Geier said.
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