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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fanny_ImlayFanny Imlay - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. Oct 9, 2016 · Why did Fanny Imlay kill herself? The documentary evidence offers no one simple cause. Part of the answer may have been physiological: she seems to have suffered from the same periods of depression that afflicted her mother, and which Mary also endured.

  3. The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein” ... Fanny Imlay, took her own life in 1816. Percy Shelley drowned in 1822. Lord Byron fell ill and died in Greece in 1824, leaving Mary ...

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  5. 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 nor ...

  6. www.wikiwand.com › en › Fanny_ImlayFanny Imlay - Wikiwand

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. Jun 16, 2016 · Before conquering her disapproval of the institution of marriage in order to marry Godwin, who shared her opinion of state-sanctioned wedlock, Mary Wollstonecraft borne an illegitimate daughter,...

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