| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1814/05/00 | Percy Shelley courts Mary Godwin. The couple read the works of her parents while resting on Mary Wollstonecraft's grave at St Pancras. "Go to the tomb and read." - MWS | Tomb of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Mary Jane Godwin, St Pancras Old Church Gardens, Old Church Of St Pancras |
| 1814/05/00 | Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin have a forbidden courtship which includes rendezvous at Mary Wollstonecraft's grave in St Pancras churchyard. | Tomb of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Mary Jane Godwin, St Pancras Old Church Gardens, Old Church Of St Pancras |
| 1814/05/25 | Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley possibly meet for the second time. | |
| 1814/07/28 | Accompanied by Claire Clairmont, Mary W Godwin and Percy Shelley elope to France. William Godwin refuses any communication with his daughter for the next two and a half years. | |
| 1816/12/08 | Harriet Shelley, far advanced in pregnancy, is taken out of the Serpentine River dead and brought to her residence in Queen St, Brompton. She has a valuable ring on her finger, her husband, Percy Shelley is abroad. | The Serpentine, London, Hyde Park |
| 1816/12/30 | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin marries Percy Bysshe Shelley at St Mildred's Church, Bread Street, London (lost). Mary's father, William Godwin, and her step-mother Mary Godwin, Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne attend the small and informal ceremony. |
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