Percy Bysshe Shelley began life in Horsham, Sussex, England, as the eldest of seven children. Shelley faced many difficulties throughout her life due to her controversial views and philosophies. Percy's life improved, however, after he married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, his second wife, as they were intellectually equal and both wrote it. Percy was born on August 4, 1792 in a small village on Broadbridge Heath, where he learned to fish and hunt on the meadows. with his good friend and cousin Thomas Medwin. He was the eldest of seven children belonging to Thomas Shelley and Elizabeth Pilfold. At the age of just ten, Percy left Broadbridge Heath to attend Syon House Academy, and two years later he attended Eton College. He eventually began to have problems with Eton College. He was severely bullied mentally and physically by his classmates. After a while, his escape from pain was his imagination. After a year, he had already published two short stories and two collections of poetry. In the early fall of 1810, Percy entered University College, Oxford. While there he was caught in possession of a pamphlet he had written which contained views on atheism and was expelled for it. Not only was Percy an atheist, but he was also a vegetarian and strongly believed in political radicalism and sexual freedom. His parents did not agree with his views and asked him to change them. In August 1811, he became interested in a 16-year-old girl named Harriet Westbrook whom her parents told him he could not see. He rebelled because his love was centered solely on the hope he had of preventing her from committing suicide. They dated for a while, but then Percy got mad at her. Now his interest was in a school teacher who inspired his first major poem entitled That...... middle of paper... of Livorno after seeing Leigh Hunt about their freshly printed newspaper. Percy's death was reported as an accident, but based on the scene, some say he was murdered by someone who didn't like his political beliefs. As a result, Percy was cremated on the beach where he had drowned. Mary could not attend his funeral because at the time women could not do so. Later, his ashes were buried in the Protestant cemetery. A few years later, more than a century had passed when he was honored in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. Percy's life was full of trials and adventures. He showed himself to be intelligent and promising as a writer and philosopher from an early age, although his views were not popular. Despite this, his stories and poems were highly regarded in his time, and even today. His family affairs, however, were always quite delicate and only settled a few years before his mysterious death...