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aug 28, 1811 - Shelley elopes with Harriet Westbrook

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Shelley runs off to Scotland with a 16-year-old student named Harriet Westbrook. Though he does not love Westbrook and disapproves of the idea of marriage, he likes the idea of "moulding a really noble soul into all that can make its nobleness useful and lovely."

They have a daughter, Ianthe, in June 1813.

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aug 28, 1811
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~ 214 years ago