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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.
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.
Oct 28, 2016 · An inquest held a week later when she was still identified only as a “young lady” stated a verdict merely that she was ‘found dead’. The suicide of Fanny Imlay Wollstonecraft Godwin is perhaps one of the saddest of episodes in the story of the Shelleys.
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 ...
Oct 29, 2001 · Within months, the suicide of Mary’s older half-sister Fanny Imlay (who may also have been in love with Shelley) was followed by the suicide of Shelley’s deserted first wife.
Fanny Wollstonecraft, Fanny Godwin. Frances "Fanny" 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 Gilbert Imlay.
May 8, 2015 · It included 22-year-old Fanny Imlay, Wollstonecraft’s first daughter. The emotionally fragile Fanny had difficulty abiding the loneliness and rejection occasioned by Mary and Claire’s escape ...
