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Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
Claire Clairmont. Jane Clairmont, known throughout her life as Claire, 1798 -1879, step-sister of Mary Shelley.
Mar 28, 2014 · Learn about the life and letters of Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of Mary Shelley and the lover of Lord Byron. Explore her relationship with Byron, her daughter Allegra, her travels, and her struggles as a woman in the Romantic era.
Jun 22, 2024 · The first biography of Claire Clairmont, Claire Clairmont: Mother of Byron’s Allegra, published in 1939, was unsentimental about its subject’s relevance. Clairmont was indeed the mother of Lord...
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Claire Clairmont (1798–1879) was a member of the Shelley–Byron circle and the mother of Byron's daughter Allegra. She accompanied Mary Godwin and Shelley on their elopement and later met Byron in Switzerland.
Apr 10, 2024 · Lesley McDowell’s fine novel Clairmont (2024) offers a moving, erudite pivot to the story of the summer of 1816 in an effort to tell the story of the woman largely airbrushed from history.
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In Lord Byron: Life and career. …eloped and were living with Claire Clairmont, Godwin’s half sister. (Byron had begun an affair with Clairmont in England.) In Geneva he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold (1816), which follows Harold from Belgium up the Rhine River to Switzerland.
