In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "From the meadow on the ledge" or "clearing on a bank" sometimes truthful and pretty. It is Old English in origin. As with many other names (Ashley, Courtney, etc.), Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male. Shelley is also a transferred surname used by those in Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire, particularly in settlements where a wood/clearing was beside a ledge or hillside.
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... appearance 21 September 2005 Profile Occupation Psychiatrist Zack is a psychiatrist who treats Shelley Unwin when her anxiety overtakes so much of her life that ... Zack helps Shelley slowly go back to the outside world, but Shelley's boyfriend Charlie Stubbs resents Zack's efforts to help, and eventually convinces Shelley to stop ... Shelley progresses far enough that she manages to dump Charlie moments before she is to become his wife ...
... Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet (18 January 1880-1965) is a relative of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Shelley was born to Lt ... Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet and Lady Mary Jane Jemima Shelley (née Stopford), daughter of 5th Earl of Courtown ...
... is a florist whom Peter Barlow meets while buying a bouquet for Shelley Unwin ... He later marries Lucy, telling her that he and Shelley have split up ... and is happy to keep quiet and be bridesmaid to Lucy and Shelley when he later marries her ...
... Shelley is a closed station located in the town of Shelley, on the Cudgewa railway line in Victoria, Australia ...
... Coordinates 52°00′N 0°57′E / 52°N 0.95°E / 52 0.95 Shelley Shelley Population 50 (2005) District Babergh Shire county Suffolk Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom EU ... Other points of interest are Shelley Hall, a listed building with a protected moat, and Snakes Wood, which is classfied as Ancient Woodland and serves as a nature reserve ... Gosnold, is buried at All Saints Church, Shelley ...
Famous quotes containing the word shelley:
“Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“And like a prophetess of May
Strew’d flowers upon the barren way,
Making the wintry world appear
Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)