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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 · Fanny Imlay. My duty – my professional duty – was clear. This note must remain, and the constable must see it. But I had a higher duty, or so I thought then. Not to her family, who, I feared, would be only too ready to commence their forgetting, but to the young woman herself.
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 ...
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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.
Oct 29, 2001 · By MERLE RUBIN. Oct. 29, 2001 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. She was the daughter of two advanced thinkers: radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. She...
Imlay, Fanny (ENGLAND) BORN 14 May 1794, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime - DIED 9 Oct 1816, Swansea: Mackworth Arms, in a small upper room BIRTH NAME Imlay, Frances CAUSE OF DEATH suicide by laudanum overdose
Apr 5, 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. Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, circa 1797, NPG London. She was born in 1794, daughter to Mary and Gilbert ...
