Interesting Facts About Percy Bysshe Shelley

-He was close friends with Lord Byron and John Keats.

-His second wife, Mary Shelley, was the author of Frankenstein.

-He was a very strict vegetarian, and wrote many pamphlets on the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.

-All the major works of Shelley's life were written in the last four years before he passed away.

-He made almost no money from his writings during his lifetime. His income was primarily from the money left to him by his grandfather, and this is how he had time to write although he was not considered successful while alive.

-He passed away shortly before his thirtieth birthday.