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Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals.
Jean Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, suffered from epilepsy and postictal psychosis, a condition that caused her to act violently after seizures. Learn about her life, treatments, and family challenges in this article by Laura Skandera Trombley.
28. Juni 2009 · Jean Clemens was the youngest and least known daughter of the famous writer Mark Twain. She suffered from epilepsy, rebelled against her father's restrictions, and became an animal-rights activist and a wood carver.
In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in a Katonah, New York, epileptic colony:
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24. - Miss Jean Clemens, youngest daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in the bathtub at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country home near here, early this morning. Her body lay submerged in water when the young woman's maid discovered it, shortly after sunrise.
Jane Lampton Clemens, born July 26, 1880, was always called “Jean” by her family and friends. She was the youngest child of Sam and Olivia Clemens. Later in 1880, Clemens wrote to his sister: “Jean is as fat as a watermelon, & just as sweet, & good, & often just as wet.” Her parents did not record as many details of her early years as ...
Jean Clemens. Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens was the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.
