As the story goes, Percy Shelleys heart simply refused to burn - TopicsExpress



          

As the story goes, Percy Shelleys heart simply refused to burn during his cremation, and a friend grabbed it from the smoldering remains. True or not, Mary Shelley, the famous Englishmans wife and the author of Frankenstein, believed the tale. Odder still, Leigh Hunt, a popular writer of the day who was a close friend of the Shelleys, obtained the alleged organ and for a time refused to give it up. By some accounts, after Mary did get a hold of the Romantic poets heart, she kept it in her home as a sort of personal relic. It is believed to be buried with their son who died in 1889. (Illustration: Engraving by George Stodart after a monument of Mary and Percy Shelley by Henry Weekes, 1853)
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:50:59 +0000

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