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Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | Apart from Byron's rumoured sexual relation with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh
, the most notorious among his many affairs were those with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Claire Clairmont
, and Teresa Guiccioli
. Lamb's remarkable... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
and Percy Bysshe Shelley
met in Hatton Garden, London, to elope to France; with them went her stepsister, Claire Clairmont
. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43. 41 Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08. 298 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | At the time of her marriage, Mary Jane Godwin had a son and a daughter—Jane, who later changed her name to Claire
—who proved lastingly important in MS
's life. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 24, 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley
had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it... |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft
became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution... |
Friends, Associates | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse
, and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy
and Mary Shelley
and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont
, with... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley
, their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont
, Byron
, and Dr John W. Polidori
. Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore... |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | MS
and her half-sister, Claire Clairmont
, published a story in the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, about a Polish refugee. Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40. 433-4 |
Residence | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
, Shelley
, and Claire Clairmont
returned from abroad, in financial straits, to London, where they lived in a series of lodgings. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. xvi |
Textual Features | Mary Shelley | |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET
used Henry James
's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson
, and Mary Shelley
's stepsister Claire Clairmont
as source for his novel. “Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction. |
Textual Production | George Paston | GP
had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot
, Lady Caroline Lamb
, Augusta Leigh
, Lady Melbourne
, Annabella Milbanke
, Claire Clairmont
, and the actresses Susan Boyce
and Mrs Spencer... |
Travel | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
, Shelley
, and Claire Clairmont
travelled through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 1994, pp. 11-43. 41 |
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