Fanny Imlay

Standard Name: Imlay, Fanny

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Wollstonecraft
MW bore her daughter Fanny at Havre-Marat on the French coast (revolutionary name for the former Havre-de-Grace, now Le Havre), on a date then known as 25 Floréal, year ii.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin, 1992.
211, 213, 218-19
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Fanny Imlay , sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and elder daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft , killed herself in a boarding-house in Swansea.
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
127
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
At the time of Mary's birth, her mother already had a three-year-old daughter—Fanny Imlay —from a previous relationship.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.
20
Textual Features Mary Wollstonecraft
They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW 's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay ); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay (passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to...

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