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Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
Claire Clairmont. Jane Clairmont, known throughout her life as Claire, 1798 -1879, step-sister of Mary Shelley. Thrown together as infants by the marriage of their parents William Godwin and Mary Jane Clairmont in December 1801, it seems inevitable that the two, less than a year apart in age, should have grown up together as codependent ...
Claire Clairmont, born in 1798 in Brislington, England, had a childhood like a Gothic novel. She knew who her mother was—but what she didn’t know for sure was the identity of her father. Mom said it was a guy called Charles Clairmont, but the man was like a ghost who never appeared.
Clara Maria Constantina Jane Clairmont (Stocking 13), commonly known as Claire Clairmont, was a stepsister to Mary Shelley, partner of Lord Byron, and mother of his child, Allegra. Clairmont believed herself to be born 27 April 1798 and she died 19 March 1879.
Mar 28, 2014 · Claire Clairmont was the archetypal Romantic woman, far more than her more famous step-sister, Mary Shelley.
Apr 10, 2024 · Retellings of the infamous summer acknowledge the presence of Claire Clairmont, Mary Godwin’s stepsister, now pregnant with Byron’s child after a brief affair.
Claire Clairmont. (1798—1879) a member of the Shelley–Byron circle. Quick Reference. (1798–1879), daughter of Mary Clairmont, who became William Godwin's second wife. She accompanied Mary Godwin on her elopement with Shelley, and in spite of pursuit remained with them on the Continent.
Mar 9, 2018 · Mary traveled with her lover, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their four-month-old baby and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont. At the time, Claire was pregnant with a child by Lord Byron, the...
Aug 15, 2005 · Michael Rossington, a leading Shelley scholar, has discovered a previously unrecorded manuscript of 1820 - the 'Ode to Naples' - in the beautiful handwriting of Clairmont (1798-1879), who captivated the poet with her wit, her intelligence and her black eyes.
The first Claire Clairmont manuscript materials acquired by the Collection – including her 1818 journal – came from the 1820 sale of the library of the bibliographer and forger Harry Buxton Forman. Over the next seventy years, occasional Clairmont acquisitions were made, most often through auction.
