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—Percy Bysshe Shelley 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. Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher ...
Oct 9, 2016 · This is the first of two posts in which I will look at how I turned fact into fiction in the case of the ‘Shelley suicides’ – the twin tragedies that confronted the Shelley party on their return from Geneva in late 1816. The first of these is the death of Fanny Imlay, Mary Godwin’s half-sister. Fanny Imlay: The facts.
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 ...
Dec 30, 2020 · Frances "Fanny" Imlay (legally Frances Wollstonecraft; 14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator Gilbert Imlay. Although Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay lived together happily for brief periods before and ...
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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 ...
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 102435862. Sponsored by S74rw4rd. Source citation. also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator Gilbert Imlay. Fanny's mother wrote about her frequently in her later works, and Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
Name variations: Fanny Imlay Godwin. Born in Le Havre, France, May 1794; committed suicide, Sept 1816; illeg. dau. of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) and Gilbert Imlay; half-sister of Mary Shelley (1797–1851). Seven of her letters, written the year of her death, are included in The Clairmont Correspondence, published by Johns Hopkins (1996).
