Percy Shelley once joked, ‘self, that burr that will stick to one. I can’t get it off yet’. But a burr, if annoying, often carries seeds. That ‘self’ abided with those he left behind. The crop of major biographies and memoirs of Shelley written during the period 1823–78 came from those who knew him. While their portraits are often consistent in details, each offers a different facet of a chameleonic figure. This chapter surveys some of the Shelleys from which one might choose.