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Jane Lampton Clemens, born July 26, 1880, was always called “Jean” by her family and friends. She was the youngest child of Sam and Olivia Clemens. Later in 1880, Clemens wrote to his sister: “Jean is as fat as a watermelon, & just as sweet, & good, & often just as wet.”
Jun 28, 2009 · Jean Clemens, youngest daughter of Olivia and Samuel (Mark Twain), periodically lamented that she hadn’t accomplished anything worthwhile. Even today, if she’s remembered, it’s mostly for dying...
Short Biography. SLC’s youngest daughter was named after his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, but was always called Jean. Like her sisters, Jean was educated largely at home. In 1896, however, she was attending school in Elmira, New York, when she suffered a severe epileptic seizure.
May 20, 2016 · The Mark Twain House & Museum. By Theresa Sullivan Barger. May 20, 2016. The social norms of the Victorian era prevented Sam Clemens’s youngest daughter, Jean, from typical women’s roles as...
The Death Of Jean. The death of Jean Clemens occurred early in the morning of December 24, 1909. Mr. Clemens was in great stress of mind when I first saw him, but a few hours later I found him writing steadily. "I am setting it down," he said, "everything. It is a. relief to me to write it. It furnishes me an excuse for thinking."
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24. -- Miss Jean Clemens youngest daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in the bathtub at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country home near here, early this morning. Her body...
In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in a Katonah, New York, epileptic colony:
