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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. Wollstonecraft wrote about her frequently in her later works.
Oct 9, 2016 · A literary mystery novelist explores the facts and fiction behind the death of Fanny Imlay, Mary Shelley's half-sister, in 1816. She examines the possible causes, the family's reaction, and the impact on the Shelleys' relationship.
Oct 29, 2001 · Within months, the suicide of Mary’s older half-sister Fanny Imlay (who may also have been in love with Shelley) was followed by the suicide of Shelley’s deserted first wife.
Fanny Imlay 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. Always a troubled girl, Fanny had neither financial independence nor ...
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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.
Apr 5, 2022 · Fanny Imlay was the illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the half-sister of Mary Shelley. She faced a turbulent and lonely childhood, a failed marriage, and a mysterious death at the age of nineteen.
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