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Mary Jane Godwin (née de Vial; pseudonymed Mary Jane Clairmont; 1768 – 17 June 1841) was an English author, publisher, and bookseller. She was the second wife of William Godwin and stepmother to Mary Shelley.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( UK: / ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. [2]
Godwin, Mary Jane née Vial, previously Clairmont, 1766—1841. by Benjamin Colbert. Mary Jane Vial Godwin was probably born in Exeter, the daughter of Peter de Vial (d. 1791), a French ordinance merchant, and his first wife, Mary de Vial, née Tremlett (1740–74). Around 1777, she emigrated to France and may have remained there until the ...
William Godwin courted various women looking for a new mother for the two girls until he finally met Mary Jane Vial (better known as Clairmont) and married her on 21 December 1801. Mary Jane had two children, Charles and Jane, who later called herself Claire.
Dec 19, 2006 · Abstract. “A woman I shudder to think of”, Mary Shelley wrote of her stepmother, Mary Jane Clairmont Godwin, in 1814. This article examines the relationship between the two Marys – one the daughter of the celebrated, intellectual, charming Mary Wollstonecraft, the other the woman who stepped into her shoes, married her widower and raised ...
- Harriet Devine Jump
- 1999
Mary Jane Godwin (née de Vial; pseudonymed Mary Jane Clairmont; 1768 – 17 June 1841) was an English author, publisher, and bookseller. She was the second wife of William Godwin and stepmother to Mary Shelley.
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Mary Jane Clairmont Godwin, 1766 - 1841, mother of Charles and Claire Clairmont and the second wife of William Godwin. Little is known about her early life before she and Godwin were married in December 1801.
