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***TOO LONG***Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
May 31, 2018 · The packet, too, has been “detained by contrary wind,” and Mary Jane Godwin, who travelled through the night from London, must be exhausted. As usual, it’s she who has the dirty work of trying to resolve the family’s newest drama; as usual, William Godwin remains ensconced in London.
Dec 19, 2006 · Read this article. “A woman I shudder to think of”, Mary Shelley wrote of her stepmother, Mary Jane Clairmont Godwin, in 1814. This article examines the relationship between the two Marys – one the daughter of the celebrated, intellectual, charming Mary Wollstonecraft, the other the woman who stepped into her shoes, married her widower ...
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Apr 8, 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Born: August 30, 1797, London, England. Died: February 1, 1851, London (aged 53) Notable Works: “Falkner” “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” “Lodore” “Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” “The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck” “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844”
Threatened by her stepdaughter's attention to Godwin, especially when adolescence transformed the child into a beautiful image of the first wife, Mary Jane Godwin sent the teenaged Mary to Scotland on 7 June 1812, ostensibly for the girl's health.
Mary Jane Clairmont had two children, Charles and Jane, who were similar in age to Fanny and Mary. Godwin’s friends largely disapproved – they found Mary Jane bad-tempered and artificial – but Godwin married her, and their partnership endured until his death.
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Mary Jane Godwin (née Vial; former married name Clairmont) (1768–1841), whom Godwin married in 1801, brought her two illegitimate children to the family: Charles Gaulis Clairmont (1795–1850) and Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont (1798–1879).