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Any romantic designs Clairmont might have had on Shelley were frustrated initially, but she did bring the Shelleys into contact with Lord Byron, with whom she entered into an affair before he left England in 1816 to live abroad.
Mar 28, 2010 · Daisy Hay was researching her first book in a New York public library when she found the manuscript – a fragment of a memoir by Claire Clairmont (1798-1879), Mary Shelley's pretty step-sister,...
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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.
Mar 3, 2016 · Lord Byron’s Lovers. I decided to create this section because, in his own time as well as ours, Byron’s many love affairs formed a great part of the ‘Byronic’ legend. Also, they’re fun to read about. This is the 19th century equivalent of the National Enquirer – except these stories are true!
Sep 28, 2020 · After an affair with Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, gave birth to a daughter, Allegra, in January 1817. While the Shelleys and Clairmont returned to England, Byron continued to travel. Accompanied by his friend, Baron John Hobhouse, he headed to Italy, first arriving in Venice.
Apr 10, 2024 · Clairmont, desperate to pursue her relationship with Byron, persuaded her stepsister and lover Shelley – mired in a scandal of their own in England – to decamp to Lake Geneva for the summer.
Mar 28, 2014 · But she is mostly remembered now for the scandalous event she later tried to hide from biographers: her youthful affair with Lord Byron, and her daughter, Allegra, the result of that union.
