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4 apr 2024 · Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879 Collection duke_libraries; americana Contributor Duke University Libraries Language English. 503 numb. l. 29 cm Stocking ...
Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of Mary Shelley, has until now generally been treated as a secondary character in the great dramas of Shelley and Byron. This is the first full account of a long and adventurous life, correcting many misconceptions about her role in the Shelley circle. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Claire Clairmont. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (il 27 aprile 1798 – il 19 marzo 1879), o Claire Clairmont come fu comunemente conosciuta, fu una sorellastra della scrittrice Mary Shelley e la madre della figlia di Lord Byron Allegra. Prima vita Fu . nata nel 1798 in Brislington, vicino a Bristol, il secondo bambino e solo figlia di Mary Jane ...
Students of Shelley's highly complex and puzzling personality have always found it necessary to be concerned with the “sisters of his soul.” No great amount of attention has, however, thus far been paid to Claire (Clara Mary Jane) Clairmont, daughter of the second Mrs. Godwin by a previous marriage, companion of Shelley and Mary on the elopement, and thereafter for long intervals a member ...
28 mar 2014 · Claire Clairmont was the archetypal Romantic woman, far more than her more famous step-sister, Mary Shelley. She was born, probably illegitimately, to a Mary Jane Deveraux, who happened to move to London close to the residence of one William Godwin, who was at that moment mourning the sudden death of his new wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, in childbirth.
Claire Clairmont was a central, if minor, figure in the Romantic Era intellectual and literary circle of the Godwins, Shelleys and Byron: stepdaughter of William Godwin, stepsister and confidante of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, close friend and inspiration to poet Percy Shelley, paramour of Lord Byron and mother of his infant daughter Allegra.
Abstract The relationship between Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont is usually looked at and analysed from Mary's point of view. This article reopens the debate on their relationship by demonstrating the importance of Rousseau's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise (1761) for both women. For Claire it offered a way of imaginatively refiguring the triangle of herself, Percy and Mary; for Mary ...
