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Mary Jane Godwin (née de Vial; pseudonymed Mary Jane Clairmont; 1768 – 17 June 1841) [1] was an English author, publisher, and bookseller. [2] She was the second wife of William Godwin and stepmother to Mary Shelley .
Clairmont was born in 1798 in Brislington, near Bristol, England, the second child and only daughter of Mary Jane Vial Clairmont. Throughout her childhood, she was known as Jane. Throughout her childhood, she was known as Jane.
In 1801, Godwin married his neighbour Mary Jane Clairmont. [52] She brought two of her own children into the household, Charles and Claire . Journalist H.N. Brailsford wrote in 1913, "She was a vulgar and worldly woman, thoroughly feminine, and rather inclined to boast of her total ignorance of philosophy."
Mary's possessions were gone! Most painful of all was the loss of her family photos, including those of her late son, Tommy, who died at 12 years old. The precious photographs of him had been a ...
In a hair-raisingly elaborate scheme, a woman in Britain has been arrested for allegedly using an “array of wigs” to take people's UK citizenship tests for them.
Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont and their combined family of five children. Fanny's half-sister Mary grew up to write Frankenstein and married Percy Bysshe Shelley , a leading Romantic poet, who composed a poem on Fanny's death.
A shocking crime investigators say was motivated by greed and cruelty started in Newport Beach, California, and quickly became one of the most surprising cat-and-mouse stories in recent years. In ...
Sir John Lethbridge (1746–1815) Mary Jane Vial Clairmont (c. 1766 –1841)William Godwin (1756–1836) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) Gilbert Imlay (1754?–1828)