Jane Williams: podcast appearances and interviews

Jane Williams, born Jane Cleveland, was a British woman notable for her association with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was raised in England and India before marrying a naval officer and settling in London. Subsequently, she left her first husband for another military officer, Edward Ellerker Williams. Along with Edward, she traveled to Italy where they became acquainted with Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley. Although she never engaged in a romantic relationship with Shelley, he became deeply infatuated with her near the end of his life and addressed several of his poems to her. Following the deaths of Shelley and Edward Williams in a boating accident, she lived with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, a close friend of Shelley, and had two children with him. The latter part of her life was spent as a housewife in London.