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Trelawny was born on the 13th of November 1792. His birthplace is unknown, although he claimed that he was born in Cornwall. Some of his biographers have contended that he was actually born in London.
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the cudgeree-pots, and all within its swing. The hag grew furious at the destruction of her household gods and goods, and called out for the burkandazers (police-officers of the village). Thus backed, she made a furious attack upon me, exclaiming, " You more like tiger, not than man. You no go my house. I make sepoys come kill you. I never see such obstroperousnesa when I live." CHAPTER XX. The last of human sounds which rose, As I was darted from my foes, Was the wild shout of savage laughter, Which on the wind came roaring after A moment from the rabble rout; '. With sudden wrath I wrenched my head, And writhing half my form about, " Howl'd back my curse. + * * ,» Is Away !--away !--my breath was gone-- I saw not where he hurried on : 'Twas scarcely yet the break of day, And on he foamed--away!--away !--ByRON. The hubbub within soon brought up some sepoys front without. On seeing a fellow's pike peering above the ladder, my blood began to rise, and my passion to sober me. Hecate and her witches were hanging on me like a pack of terriers on a badger. I shook off, with a sudden effort, the lethargic effect of drink, as well as the old and young who clung to me, as the tiger does his parasite providers, the jackals, when he himself is hunted. Regaining the bamboo, I drove them down the ladder; in their confusion, their weight, with the addition of the flabby governante, broke the ladder, when they fell, and formed a conelike bill below, of which she was the apex ; she plumped clown like a Dutch dogger out of the slips, sepoy and all vanishing beneath her ample beam. Great was the uproar which succeeded. A dense crowd had collected outside, with a sprinkling of peons, sepoys, and police. I now thought it time to remove myself. One wick of the shattered...
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In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them and their circle, and this collection of his reminiscences is one of the most fresh and intriguing documents of the Romantic age. It records his initial meeting with a cynical and flippant Byron, his impressions of a youthful, otherworldly Shelley and, most memorably, the poet's death at sea and the subsequent burning of his body on the sand. Trelawny's Records combine vigorous prose, vivid description and mythmaking to create one of the most memorable portraits of an age. Rosemary Ashton's new introduction explores the mysterious life and quixotic character of Trelawny, and this edition includes all the author's later revisions. Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was one of the most curious figures of the English Romantic Movement, and spent his long life travelling extensively as a naval officer, biographer and adventurer. After a brief education, Trelawny was assigned as a volunteer in the Royal Navy by the age of thirteen, and led an unaccomplished naval career until his resignation at nineteen. He met Shelley and Byron in Italy in 1822, where he became fascinated, almost hypnotized, by the two poets. His Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, written after both their deaths, is the end-product of this strange obsession. An incorrigible romancer, Trelawny had three marriages - the second of which was to Tersitza, sister of the Greek warlord Odysseus Androutsos, whose cause he had joined and whose mountain fortress he looked after when Odysseus was arrested. He died after a fall at the age of eighty-eight, in England, and his ashes were buried in Rome in a plot adjacent to Shelley's grave. Rosemary Ashton was educated at the universities of Aberdeen, Heidelberg and Cambridge. She taught English literature at University College London from 1974 to 2012, and is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and an Honorary Fellow of UCL. She has published critical biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, George Eliot, and George Henry Lewes, two books on Anglo-German literary and cultural relations in the nineteenth century, The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860 (1980) and Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England (1986), and two books about Victorian radicalism, 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London (2006) and Victorian Bloomsbury (2012). David Wright (1920-1994) was born in Johannesburg and came to England aged fourteen to attend the Northampton School for the Deaf. His first poem was published shortly after graduating from Oriel College, Oxford, and he published poetry throughout his life, including Moral Stories (1954), Monologue of a Deaf Man (1958), Metrical Observations (1980) and Elegies (1990). He was both a remarkable poet and a remarkable editor, responsible for, among others, the Penguin Classics edition of Edward Thomas's Selected Poems and Prose, The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse and, with John Heath-Stubbs, The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Verse. He was also the author of a number of books on Portugal, a biography of Roy Campbell and a memoir, Deafness: A Personal Account.
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Trelawny was born on the 13th of November 1792. His birthplace is unknown, although he claimed that he was born in Cornwall. Some of his biographers have contended that he was actually born in London.
At the age of eight Charles Brereton decided to send Edward to live at the Seyer school, which was located two miles from their home in Bristol at that time. Trelawny later claimed that his father had resisted sending him to the school for some time due to its cost, but decided to enroll him after he caught him stealing apples from an orchard in the back yard. Trelawny hated the school and was very angry at his father for sending him there. He often complained that the school served terrible food and subjected him to frequent flogging as a form of punishment. In addition to flogging, one of his classmates recorded that caning was a frequent method of punishment there, as well. The school's treatment of its students was actually comparable to many other schools of that time. He was also bullied and treated cruelly by other students there.
At age 13 he entered the Royal Navy, and he was discharged in 1812. Trelawny wrote of his experiences as a midshipman in his semiautobiographical novel Adventures of a Younger Son (1831).
In 1822 Trelawny met Shelley and Byron in Pisa, and, after Shelley drowned at Livorno on July 8 of that year, he supervised the recovery and cremation of Shelley’s body. In 1823 Trelawny accompanied Byron to Greece to aid in the struggle for Greek independence. Later Trelawny vividly recounted his friendships with the two great poets in his Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858; rev. ed. , Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 1878). From 1833 to 1835 Trelawny traveled in the United States, where, among other adventures, he attempted to swim the Niagara River between the rapids and the falls and demonstrated his sympathy for the abolitionists by buying the freedom of a slave.
Besides the Shelley circle, his friendships included Caroline Norton, the Rossettis, Walter Savage Landor, Algernon Swinburne, and John Millais. Trelawny’s ashes were buried next to Shelley’s in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
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Trelawny was politically active with a group known as the Philosophical Radicals. The group advocated left wing politics and often focused its efforts on the rights of women. Trelawny began associating with its supporters, many of whom were among the upper class members of London society. Most of London society was willing to overlook his claims of disloyalty against the British after his claimed desertion and accepted him into society.
He was married three times. His first love was Caroline Addison. She was several years younger than him but as well educated and had studied French and was a skilled Pianist. They were married in May 1813 and first lived in London. They had two children. The marriage was unhappy and they decided to breake down.
The second his wife was Teritza, the half-sister of Odysseas. She was much younger than him, and was probably a teenager. He filed for divorce from Teritza in 1827 in Kefalonia after four years of marriage.
In 1841 Trelawny married Augusta Goring and they settled in a small country town Usk and bought a farmhouse. They had a daughter. This marriage also ended in divorce.