Search results
The Godwin household became an increasingly uncomfortable place to live as tensions rose and debts mounted. The teenage Mary and Claire escaped by running off to the Continent with Shelley in 1814. Fanny, left behind, bore the brunt of her stepmother's anger. She became increasingly isolated from her family and died by suicide in 1816.
In October 1817 she left Godwin's home ostensibly to visit her maternal aunts who ran a school in Dublin. On the night of October 9 she checked into a hotel in Swansea, Wales, where she took an overdose of laudanum and died.
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 · They had taken up residence in Bath to hide Claire’s pregnancy from prying scandal eyes in London and Mary was working on the beginnings of a draft of the story she had envisioned in Geneva. Mary’s father, William Godwin’s finances were a shambles and he was approaching bankruptcy.
Mar 30, 2024 · The teenage Mary and Claire escaped by running off to the Continent with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. Fanny, left behind, bore the brunt of Godwin's anger. She became increasingly isolated from her family and committed suicide in 1816 at the age of 22.
- May 14, 1794
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.
Jan 7, 2018 · His family now swells to include not only his new wife, Mary, and her half-sister, Fanny Imlay, (Wollstonecraft’s daughter by her lover, Gilbert Imlay), but Clairmont’s illegitimate...
