Activity of The Shelleys Corresponding to the Inception of The Cenci

Chronology - The Shelleys

• Born 4 August 1792 – Warnam, near Horsham, West Sussesx
• 30 August 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin born
• 1804 to 1810 – Shelley at Eaton
• 1809/10 – Shelley writes book length poem The Wandering Jew
• 10 April 1810 – Begins at University College Oxford
• 1811 – with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, writes, "The Necessity of Atheism"
• 25 March 1811 – Expelled from University College Oxford
• 29 August 1811 – Elopes with and marries Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh
• November 1812 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet…which is probably one of the coolest things ever to happen ever
• 23 June 1813 – Ianthe Shelley born
• May 1814 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet again (also cool)
• 28 July 1814 – P.B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to France with Mary Jane/Claire Clairmont
• 30 November 1814 – Charles Shelley born to Harriet Shelley nee Westbrook
• 5 January 1815 – Sir Bysshe Shelley (P.B.'s grandfather) dies. Shelley receives money for his debts and an annual income of £1000 per annum
• 22(?) February 1815 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley gives birth to a daughter who dies March 6th
• 24 January 1816 – William Shelley born
• February 1816 – Alastor: or The Spirit of Solitude: & Other Poems published (first work published under Shelley's own name)
• June 1816 – Mary Shelly begins writing Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
• July 1816 – Shelley's visit Mont Blanc, P.B. Shelley writes "Mont Blanc"
• 9 October 1816 – Fanny Godwin commits suicide in Wales
• 10 December 1816 – A pregnant Harriet Shelley's body is found in Hyde Park, London after having committed suicide by drowning
• 30 December 1816 – Percy Bysshe and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley are married
• 27 March 1817 – P. B. Shelley denied custody of his two children by Harriett, Ianthe and Charles
• 2 September 1817 – Clara Shelley born
• November 1817 – History of a Six Weeks' Tour by P.B. and MW Shelley published
• December 1817 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus published! (dated 1818)
• 1817 – P.B. Shelley writes "On Frankenstein," which is published posthumously in The Athenæum on 10 November 1832
• 11 March 1818 (my birthday) – The Shelley's, with children and Claire Clairmont in tow, leave for the continent
• April or May 1818 – Shelley, who Bieri suggests was under the influence of just reading Hamlet in Milan, reads the manuscript of the Cenci family manuscript which John Gisborne loaned him.
• May 1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley copies Cenci family history manuscript from John Gisborne
• June 1818 – The Shelleys move to Bagni de Lucca where P.B. Shelley writes "On Love"
• 24 September 1818 – Clara Shelley dies
• 20 November 1818 – The Shelleys cross the Campagna di Roma and arrive in Rome
• 27 November 1818 – Shelley leaves Rome alone for Naples
• 28 November 1818 – Mary Shelley and entourage leave Rome for Naples
• 16 December 1818 – The Shelleys summit Vesuvius
• 22 December 1818 – The Shelleys tour Pompeii
• 27 December 1818 – Mary Shelley in her Journal writes, "Claire is not well." Speculation abounds as to the import but December 27 becomes a hugely important date for the Shelleys
• 27 February 1819 – Shelley appears at the Naples registrar and has declared, "on the twenty-seventh day of the month of December One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen, was born to him and Mary [?] Padurin, his legitimate wife—of England—aged twenty-seven—a girl whom he has presented us and to whom the name of Elena Adelaide was given" (qtd. in Bieri). Only P.B.'s signature is on the birth registration. Bieri notes that the incorrect age (Mary shelley would have been just 21) is closer to that of the Shelley's soon to be estranged servant Elise. The child was certainly not Mary's.
• 28 February 1819 – The Shelleys leave Naples
• 5 March 1819 – Shelleys back in Rome
• April 1819 – First three acts of Prometheus Unbound completed
• May 1819 – P.B. Shelley begins composition of The Cenci
• 15 May 1819 – Claire Clairmont remarks in a letter to Lord Byron that Count Cenci is Byron but twenty years older and that as long as she lives Allegra will be no Beatrice (noted in Bieri).
• 7 June 1819 – William Shelley dies of malaria
• 10 June 1819 – the official registrar in Naples records that on June 9th Elena Shelley had died. Both of the Shelleys are still in Rome
• 10 June 1819 – The Shelleys leave Rome for Leghorn
• 17 June 1819 – The Shelleys arrive in Leghorn
• 25 July 1819 – To Thomas Love Peacock, "I have written a tragedy"
• August 1819 – The Cenci is actually finished
• 21 September 1819 – Glauco Masi had produced 250 copies of The Cenci to be sent to England.
• Autumn 1819 – Mary Shelley writes "Mathilda"
• 12 November 1819 – Percy Florence Shelley is born
• 1819 – Prometheus Unbound is finished
• October 1820 – Shelley writes Swellfoot the Tyrant
• 1820 – Charles Ollier publishes The Cenci in England, a second edition published in 1821 making this the only work of Shelley's to have two authorized editions published while he was alive
• February and March 1821 – writes "A Defense of Poetry"
• 16 June 1822 – Mary Shelley miscarries
• 8 July 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns en route to Pisa