Author: Shelley, Elizabeth
Biography:
SHELLEY, Elizabeth (1794-1831: ancestry.com)
Pseudonym Cazire
She was baptised at Warnham, Sussex, on 2 Jul. 1794, the second child and eldest daughter of Elizabeth (Pilfold) Shelley (1763-1846) and Sir Timothy Shelley (1753-1844), baronet. The eldest of their six children was Percy Bysshe Shelley, q.v.; there followed four girls and then another son, John Villiers Shelley (1806-67). The family home was a fourteenth-century manor house, Field Place, in Warnham. Elizabeth was Percy’s collaborator through pseudonyms in Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810). Only three of the 17 poems are now attributed to Elizabeth, and when a fourth supposedly by her was found to be actually by M. G. Lewis (q.v.), the book was withdrawn and suppressed. Little is known of her later life. She did not marry, died at Field Place, and was buried on 27 Dec. 1831 at St. Margaret’s, Warnham. (ancestry.com 19 Oct. 2024; findmypast.com 19 Oct 2024; RPW; P. B. Shelley, Complete Poetical Works ed. Neville Rogers [1972] 1: 37-63)