varying amounts of scholarship and often contradicted each other about details of Trelawny's life. Trelawny has been credited with helping Byron and Shelley become recognized as celebrities after their deaths. Jonathan Bate has described him as one of the "key makers of modern celebrity". He was the last major figure of the Romantic era living in Victorian England. Besides being the subject of numerous biographies, Trelawny is one of the primary characters in the novella "A Time to Cast Away Stones" (Chapbook 2009), collected in The Bible Repairman and Other Stories [Tachyon, 2011] and Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers [Baen, 2017]) and the novel Hide Me Among the Graves (William Morrow, 2012), both by Tim Powers , as well as playing a major role in Shelley's Boat, by Julian Roach (Harbour Books, 2005). References Sources External links Edward John Trelawny Collection, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, CA Edward John Trelawny portrait in the National Portrait Gallery Family tree 1792 births 1881 deaths 18th-century English people 19th-century English novelists British biographers Writers from Cornwall Sailors from Cornwall Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome Personal timelines People from Sompting