Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet. He was born in England to a Member of Parliament in 1792. Shelley eloped twice, first with Harriet Westbrook with whom he had two children, and then with Mary Godwin after his first marriage collapsed. Mary Shelley later wrote Frankenstein. Shelley died by drowning at age 30 in 1822 when his ship sank during a storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.