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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 .
Mary Jane Clairmont was a sharp-tongued woman, who often quarrelled with Godwin and favoured her own children over her husband's. She contrived to send her volatile and emotionally intense daughter to boarding school for a time, so providing her with more formal education than her stepsisters.
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."
After falling in love with and marrying Godwin, Wollstonecraft died soon after giving birth in 1797, leaving the three-year-old Fanny in the hands of Godwin, along with their newborn daughter Mary. Four years later, Godwin remarried and his new wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, brought two children of her own into the marriage, most significantly ...
The closest English translation to the original is that of the Juvenile Library in 1816, published as The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island, in two volumes, by the husband-and-wife team William Godwin and Mary Jane Clairmont, reprinted by Penguin Classics. [2]
Mary Jane Vial Clairmont (c. 1766 –1841) William Godwin (1756–1836) ... William Godwin the Younger (1803–1832) Mary Shelley (1797–1851) Percy Bysshe Shelley
Godwin was the only son of William Godwin the elder, by his second wife, Mary Jane formerly Clairmont. His elder half-siblings and step-siblings included Charles Clairmont, Claire Clairmont , Fanny Imlay , and Mary Shelley .
Laurette twenty years after Mary Shelley wrote "Maurice" for her. In 1814, the seventeen-year-old Mary Shelley (Mary Godwin, at the time) ran off with Percy Bysshe Shelley to continental Europe, accompanied by Claire Clairmont, Mary's stepsister. After six weeks of travelling, they returned to England but continued to live together.