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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.
Feb 5, 2018 · “Frankenstein” is four stories in one: an allegory, a fable, an epistolary novel, and an autobiography, a chaos of literary fertility that left its very young author at pains to explain her...
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.
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.
The Geneva idyll ended 29 August 1816, when the Shelleys returned to England. Then came a series of shocks: Mary's half sister, Fanny Imlay (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay), committed suicide on 9 October; a month later Shelley's wife, Harriet, drowned herself.
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