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Claire Clairmont. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron 's daughter Allegra. She is thought to be the subject of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley . Early life.
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Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was...
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Mar 28, 2010 · Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (1798 - 1879), known as Claire Clairmont. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. The Observer George Gordon Byron. This article is more than 14 years old. Byron's...
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Mar 28, 2014 · Claire’s journals show her mood swings more clearly than her letters, which also veer between melancholy and happiness – habitually she suffered depressive feelings a few days before her period, which she marked in her journal with an ‘X’.
Apr 10, 2024 · Lesley McDowell’s fine novel Clairmont (2024) offers a moving, erudite pivot to the story of the summer of 1816 in an effort to tell the story of the woman largely airbrushed from history.
Overview. Claire Clairmont. (1798—1879) a member of the Shelley–Byron circle. Quick Reference. (1798–1879), daughter of Mary Clairmont, who became William Godwin's second wife. She accompanied Mary Godwin on her elopement with Shelley, and in spite of pursuit remained with them on the Continent.
Other articles where Claire Clairmont is discussed: Lord Byron: Life and career: …eloped and were living with Claire Clairmont, Godwin’s half sister. (Byron had begun an affair with Clairmont in England.) In Geneva he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold (1816), which follows Harold from Belgium up the Rhine River to Switzerland. It memorably evokes the historical associations of each ...
Apr 2, 1992 · Robert Gittings, Jo Manton. Published: 2 April 1992. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Claire Clairmont, the stepsister of Mary Shelley, has usually been presented as a minor, though damaging figure in the great dramas of Shelley and Byron.
