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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... Profile Occupation Psychiatrist Zack is a psychiatrist who treats Shelley Unwin when her anxiety overtakes so much of her life that she is rarely able to ... 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 seeing him ... Shelley progresses far enough that she manages to dump Charlie moments before she is to become his wife ...
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 ... 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 ... and explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, is buried at All Saints Church, Shelley ...
... 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 ...
... Shelley is a closed station located in the town of Shelley, on the Cudgewa railway line in Victoria, Australia ...
... whom Peter Barlow meets while buying a bouquet for Shelley Unwin ... He later marries Lucy, telling her that he and Shelley have split up ... know different and is happy to keep quiet and be bridesmaid to Lucy and Shelley when he later marries her ...
Famous quotes containing the word shelley:
“Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
Through the vest which seems to hide them;
As the radiant lines of morning
Through the clouds ere they divide them;
And this atmosphere divinest
Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“After Shelley, Byron and Scott, you know, one cannot care about other poets.”
—Hellen Shelley (1799–c. 1870)