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Frances Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay.
9 ott 2016 · Fanny Imlay: The fiction. In The Frankenstein Monster, the account of Fanny’s death is narrated by the elder Charles Maddox, a former Bow Street Runner who has set up a lucrative private practice finding missing persons, and solving crimes.
Frances Imlay, later Godwin, 1794 - 1817, was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay and half-sister to Mary Shelley. After Mary Wollstonecraft's death William Godwin adopted the three-year old whom he raised as if his own child until she was eleven.
5 apr 2022 · This is Fanny Imlay, illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, half-sister to Mary Shelley. She lives among them all, but seems to make little impression, until suddenly, shockingly, at the age of nineteen, we read of her suicide.
5 feb 2018 · In 1793, during an affair with the American speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft became pregnant. (“I am nourishing a creature,” she wrote Imlay.)
The Geneva idyll ended 29 August 1816, when the Shelleys returned to England. Then came a series of shocks: Mary's half sister, Fanny Imlay (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay), committed suicide on 9 October; a month later Shelley's wife, Harriet, drowned herself.
Frances Imlay, also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay.
