Shelley most often refers to:
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...
(1792–1822), a major English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic fiction, Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of scie ...
(1797–1851), an English novelist and the wife of Percy Shelley
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Shelley (name) Shelley is a given name and surname. In many baby name books, ''Shelley'' is listed as meaning "meadow’s edge" or "clearing on a bank". It is Old English in origin. As with many other names (Courtney, Ashley, etc.), Shelley is today a name given a ...
, a given name and a surname
Shelley may also refer to:
Film and television
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''Shelley'' (film), a 2016 Danish film
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''Shelley'' (TV series), a British sitcom that first aired in 1979
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Shelley (''American Horror Story''), a character on ''American Horror Story''
Music
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Shelley (musician) (Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, born 1988), a German-born American musician
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Shelley (band) or Orlando, a British 1990s band
Places
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Shelley, Victoria
Shelley is a former town on the Cudgewa railway line in Northeast Victoria. It was home to the highest railway station in Victoria, at above sea level.
The Shelley Railway Station was opened in 1916 and closed in 1979. The railway was used ea ...
, a former
town in the Shire of Towong, Australia
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Shelley railway station, Victoria
Shelley is a closed station located in the town of Shelley, on the Cudgewa railway line in Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial ...
, a closed station
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Shelley, Western Australia
Shelley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning.
History
The suburb was part of Riverton until the mid-1960s; its name is believed to refer to shells found in the area on the shores of the Canning River.
B ...
, a suburb of Perth
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Shelley, British Columbia
Shelley, northeast of Prince George in central British Columbia, was often misspelled as "Shelly", especially during the earlier years. The First Nations Shelley Reserve No. 1 is on the northwest side of the Fraser River, and the Reserve No. 2, o ...
, Canada
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Shelley, Essex
Shelley is a partly rural village and partly residential conurbation in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
The former civil parish of Shelley focused on the parish church and the manor house of Shelley Hall ...
, England
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Shelley, Suffolk
Shelley is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located on the west bank of the River Brett around three miles south of Hadleigh, it is part of Babergh district. The population of the village was only minimal at the 2011 Census ...
, England
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Shelley, West Yorkshire
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Shelley is a village in the civil parish of Kirkburton in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is north of Holmfirth and southeast of Huddersfield.
Community
Shelley had a population of 3,059 according to the 2001 censu ...
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Shelley railway station
Shelley railway station forms the western terminus of the Whistlestop Valley and serves the village of Shelley, West Yorkshire. England. There was never a station here on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. History
The original standard gaug ...
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Shelley, Idaho
Shelley is a city in Bingham County, Idaho. The population was 4,409 at the 2010 census. The mascot for the city's high school is a Russet Burbank potato that wears a crown, robe and scepter.
Since 1927 Shelley has been home to the "Idaho Annual ...
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Shelley's Laserdome
Shelley's Laserdome was a night club in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was at the heart of the house and rave scene in the early 1990s, helping to launch the career of DJ Sasha and featuring regular appearances from Carl C ...
, former nightclub in Stoke-on-Trent, England
Other uses
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Shelley Potteries
Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was earlier known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded as The Foley Potteries. The first Shelley to join the company was Joseph Ball Shelley in 1862 and in 1896 his son Percy Shelley became the s ...
, a British pottery business
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MV ''Shelley'' or ''Empire Rancher'', a ship
See also
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Rule in Shelley's Case
The Rule in ''Shelley's Case'' is a rule of law that may apply to certain future interests in real property and trusts created in common law jurisdictions.Moynihan, Cornelius, ''Introduction to the Law of Real Property'', 3d Edition, West Grou ...
, a rule of law about property and trusts in common law jurisdictions
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Shelly (disambiguation)
Shelly or Shelli may refer to:
Places
* Shelly, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
* Shelly, Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
* Shelly Township, Norman County, Minnesota
* Shelly Park, a suburb in Aucklan ...
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