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Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
Mar 28, 2014 · Claire Clairmont was the archetypal Romantic woman, far more than her more famous step-sister, Mary Shelley.
Claire Clairmont. Jane Clairmont, known throughout her life as Claire, 1798 -1879, step-sister of Mary Shelley. Thrown together as infants by the marriage of their parents William Godwin and Mary Jane Clairmont in December 1801, it seems inevitable that the two, less than a year apart in age, should have grown up together as codependent, ...
Claire Clairmont. (1798—1879) a member of the Shelley–Byron circle. Quick Reference. (1798–1879), daughter of Mary Clairmont, who became William Godwin's second wife. She accompanied Mary Godwin on her elopement with Shelley, and in spite of pursuit remained with them on the Continent.
Jun 22, 2024 · The first biography of Claire Clairmont, Claire Clairmont: Mother of Byron’s Allegra, published in 1939, was unsentimental about its subject’s relevance. Clairmont was indeed the mother...
In Lord Byron: Life and career. …eloped and were living with Claire Clairmont, Godwin’s half sister. (Byron had begun an affair with Clairmont in England.) In Geneva he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold (1816), which follows Harold from Belgium up the Rhine River to Switzerland.
Oct 1, 2013 · In The Journals of Claire Clairemont, Stocking has brought together five of Claire's journals, all that is known of the now-lost Russian journal, and two leaflets of Miscellanea dealing with the years 1828 to 1830.
Apr 10, 2024 · One of those women was Claire Clairmont. She was the mother of his daughter Allegra, whom he consigned to a convent in Italy for her schooling, where she died aged five. Clairmont is no more...
This acclaimed biography of Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's daughter Allegra, draws on her vivid letters and journals to portray a...
Dec 6, 2018 · Among them were hundreds of pages in the hand of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (1798–1879), known as Claire, remembered today as the companion of Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley on their elopement to Europe in July 1814, as the lover of Byron, and mother of his daughter Allegra.
