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Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals.
Jane Lampton Clemens, born July 26, 1880, was always called “Jean” by her family and friends. She was the youngest child of Sam and Olivia Clemens. Later in 1880, Clemens wrote to his sister: “Jean is as fat as a watermelon, & just as sweet, & good, & often just as wet.”
In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in a Katonah, New York epileptic colony: It was desperately hard to leave Father and Clara in order to come out to a totally strange place.
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24. - Miss Jean Clemens, youngest daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in the bathtub at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country home near here, early this morning. Her body lay submerged in water when the young woman's maid discovered it, shortly after sunrise.
Feb 13, 2018 · “The Innocents Abroad” was soon published, and Clemens rocketed to fame and fortune. The Clemens’ life was not always happy, however. Soon after their marriage, Jervis Langdon died of ...
Short Biography. SLC’s youngest daughter was named after his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, but was always called Jean. Like her sisters, Jean was educated largely at home. In 1896, however, she was attending school in Elmira, New York, when she suffered a severe epileptic seizure.
Jun 28, 2009 · Jean Clemens, youngest daughter of Olivia and Samuel (Mark Twain), periodically lamented that she hadn’t accomplished anything worthwhile. Even today, if she’s remembered, it’s mostly for dying...
May 20, 2016 · The social norms of the Victorian era prevented Sam Clemens’s youngest daughter, Jean, from typical women’s roles as wife and mother because of her epilepsy, so she turned her hobby,...
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24. -- Miss Jean Clemens youngest daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in the bathtub at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country home near here, early this morning.
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