Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley blue plaque

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# 87 Marchmont Street Standing before this modest townhouse on Marchmont Street, you're looking at the address where two of Romanticism's most radical voices began their life together, fresh from their elopement and scandal. In 1815-16, the young Mary and Percy Shelley occupied a home on this site ...

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87 Marchmont Street

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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 poet & radical thinker & Mary Shelley 1797-1851 author of Frankenstein lived in a house on this site 1815-16