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Oct 28, 2016 · Saturday, October 12. —He returns with the worst account. A miserable day. Two letters from Papa. Buy mourning, and work in the evening. These were the only entries in Mary’s daily diary of the news of the suicide of her twenty-two year old elder half-sister, Fanny Imlay Godwin. The entries are characteristic of Mary’s decidedly terse and ...
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.
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 ...
Mar 30, 2024 · The teenage Mary and Claire escaped by running off to the Continent with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. Fanny, left behind, bore the brunt of Godwin's anger. She became increasingly isolated from her family and committed suicide in 1816 at the age of 22.
- May 14, 1794
Apr 24, 2010 · This arrangement further isolated her both from society and from her family – even William Godwin, the famous radical, disapproved of it – and without even the consolation of love. Why did she...
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. She was born in 1794, daughter to Mary and Gilbert ...
