Percy Shelley often lives away from home…
November 1817 CE
Percy Shelley often lives away from home in London to evade creditors during autumn 1817.
Claire Clairmont had given birth to a baby girl on January 13, at first called Alba, later Allegra.
In March of this year, the Chancery Court had ruled Percy Shelley morally unfit to assume custody of his children and later placed them with a clergyman's family.
Also in March, the Shelleys had moved with Claire and Alba to Albion House at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a large, damp building on the river Thames.
Here Mary Shelley give birth to her third child, Clara, on 2 September.
At Marlow, they entertained their new friends Marianne and Joseph Henry Leigh Hunt, work hard at their writing, and often discussed politics.
At Marlow, Mary edits the joint journal of the group's 1814 Continental journey, adding material written in Switzerland in 1816, along with Percy's poem "Mont Blanc".
The result is the History of a Six Weeks' Tour, published in November 1817.