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A Now Percy himself was stocking up.

BYet by the time Percy drowned on a pleasure boat in 1822 at the age
of 29, the poet had, for some time, been stashing cyanide and laudanum
in the Italian mansion where he was vacationing with his wife, his
mistress, his adoring sister-in-law and other hangers-on.

C There were rumors he had declined the help of an Italian vessel as
he capsized, but we will never know.


D He knew laudanum intimately: His famous mother-in-law, the
philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, had nearly ended her life with it.


E His wife's half sister had, in fact, ended her life with it.

F Did he shipwreck himself on his boat deliberately?




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