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  1. Mar 28, 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 ...

  2. Claire Clairmont | British aristocrat | Britannica. British aristocrat. Learn about this topic in these articles: relationship to Byron. 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.)

  3. Oct 1, 2013 · The diaries of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and their friends. Best known as Byron's mistress and the mother of his daughter Allegra, "Claire," as she preferred to be called ...

  4. Apr 2, 1992 · Book. Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879. Robert Gittings, Jo Manton. Published: 2 April 1992. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Claire Clairmont, the stepsister of Mary Shelley, has usually been presented as a minor, though damaging figure in the great dramas of Shelley and Byron.

  5. Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879. Responsibility. Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Imprint. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1992. Physical description. viii, 281 p. ; 23 cm. At the library. Green Library. Find it at other libraries via WorldCat. Description. Creators/Contributors. Author/Creator. Gittings, Robert. Contributor

  6. 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...

  7. 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 women of talent and...

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