Īt the following meeting, Rossetti read an essay on "The Shelleys Near Geneva Dr. Ī copy, signed by English writer, critic, and fellow Shelley Society member William Michael Rossetti, was for sale in 1939 at the former printing house and antiquarian bookshop in London, Henry Sotheran's, for 15 shillings. īy 1922, the pamphlet was being sold for 50 cents per issue. It also appeared in several private libraries including bibliographer and bookseller Harry Buxton Forman, who owned two copies, and Polish typographer Samuel Tyszkiewicz. Within a few decades, Shelley's Vegetarianism had been entered into several libraries, including in England, the Worcester Public Library, the Public Library of Boston, and the Harvard Library in the United States, as well as several in Germany, and others throughout Europe. By 1908, the cost of one copy of Shelley's Vegetarianism was 2 shillings. An edition was published by bibliophile Thomas J. It is 13 pages in total length, excluding advertisements and notes by the Vegetarian Society. The 15 x 22 centimeter sewed pamphlet was covered in paper wrapping, and was published and circulated the year following Axon's lecture to the Shelley Society, by the Vegetarian Society, at 75 Princess Street, Manchester. Axon continued to give addresses on these topics for the next two decades, such as one which is entitled "Some Famous Vegetarians," which began with the ancient Indian sage Asoka and ended with Shelley, contending that their diet "was no hindrance to their greatness." He also published these topics in several of his future works, including the 1897 book, Bygone Sussex.
It was subsequently published in pamphlet form the following year. He concludes his notes from the lecture by reiterating Axon, in that Shelley's diet "was not a mere dietetic whim, but an endeavour after a higher and better life for mankind, an attempt to bring the universe into sympathetic harmony, and to provide a bounteous feast from which none should be excluded." Remarks from Salt regarding the lecture, where that during his life in London, Bracknell, and Marlow, the poet Shelley continued to be in the main an abstainer from flesh-meat, his views on the humanities, and the hygienics of diet, which were printed in the Novemedition of The Academy. McDonel, who each took part in the discussion after the lecture, as well as several other unnamed people. Also attending the meeting was Scottish author and publisher Alexander Hay Japp, English philologist Frederick James Furnivall, along with Jane Ann Heavisides Simpson, James Burns, and Mrs. The meeting was promoted as being open to visitors, and discussion, following the lecture was invited for all who attended. 968 of The AcademyĪxon read "Shelley's Vegetarianism" before the members of the Shelley Society, at University College, on Gower Street in London, at 8 P.M., Wednesday November 12, 1890. An advertisement for this lecture appears in the November 9 issue of the secular humanist journal The Freethinker. Salt, who was also in the Vegetarian Society, as reported in The British Library Catalogues, concerning the planned lecture on the topic of Shelley's vegetarianism.
In this article, it is noted that Shelley's diet was "in keeping with his whole character, and essential to his imaginative style of writing." On May 15 and June 20, 1890, he sent two advance letters to writer and ethical vegetarian reformer Henry S.
In 1887, Axon published an article on Shelley's vegetarian aspects of living, for the fifth issue of Almonds and Raisins, along with an essay on vegetarianism in Buddhism, and several short poems. He has also been called a "leading figure of the vegetarian movement." Axon was the Honorable Secretary and the Vice President of the Vegetarian Society, and a member of the Shelley Society, at the time of the publication of the pamphlet, and co-wrote the preface for the 1884 edition of A Vindication of Natural Diet.
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Himself an avid vegetarian, Englishman William Edward Armytage Axon was employed as a librarian, with a professional hobby for antiquary, writing, and bibliography. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet who wrote several essays on the subject of vegetarianism and animal rights, including the 1813 book, A Vindication of Natural Diet. The main entrance of University College, circa 1900
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