[1][2] Shelley dedicated the Ode to Sophia which begins: Thou art fair, and few are fairer, Of the nymphs of earth or ocean, They are robes that fit the wearer - Those soft limbs of thine whose motion, Ever falls and shifts and glances As the life within them dances''.
[1] Stacey lost both her parents quite young and spent three years of her youth living with a Mr and Mrs Charles Parker.
In 1819 she set out on a grand tour of Europe with an older companion, Corbet Parry-Jones (to be described by Mary Shelley as the 'little old Welshwoman').
They went to Rome where Sophia received a lengthy letter from Mary with the Ode to a Faded Violet inscribed on the back by Shelley.
He anglicised his name to Lewis Frances and taught French for many years during the Napoleonic wars at the Woolwich military academy.
The younger son, Corbet, spent a spell in the household of the Lord Mayor of London and then retired to the family home, Hill Green House, in the village of Stockbury near Maidstone.
The elder, Charles, followed his father into the army where he was very active in the Zulu wars in South Africa and rose to the rank of Major-General.