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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.
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,...
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 16, 2019 · In this letter, written on June 19th, he announces his advent – to his real, and far less fanciful daughter, Jean: at 27, an epileptic who lived, according to the tenets of the day, in exile from her family. “I like the house ever so much,” he says, “& I like the deep quiet, after tumultuous New York.
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.
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24, 1909 (UP) -- Miss Jean L. Clemens, younger daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in a bath tub at the home of her father, "The Stormfield," by her maid this morning.
