Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Mary Jane Godwin (1768—1841) translator and bookseller Quick Reference (?1765–1841), author and publisher of children's literature, mother and step-mother to William Godwin's children. An English woman who had been forced to flee wartime Europe callin ...
After convincing Mary Jane Godwin, who had pursued them to Calais, that they did not wish to return, the trio travelled to Paris, and then, by donkey, mule, carriage, and foot, through a France recently ravaged by war, to Switzerland. "It was acting in a novel, being an incarnate romance," Mary Shelley recalled in 1826.
On the Shelleys' return to England in 1816, they first took lodgings in Bath to prevent William and Mary Jane Godwin from learning of Clairmont's pregnancy. That autumn two tragedies deeply affected the Shelley – Godwin circle. On 9 October Fanny Imlay Godwin committed suicide at Swansea.
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 ...
2. Apr. 2014 · The family dynamics soon changed with Godwin's marriage to Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Clairmont brought her own two children into the union, and she and Godwin later had a son together. Shelley ...
Nach der Geburt von Mary Godwin starb sie im Kindbettfieber. William Godwin heiratete kurze Zeit später Mary Jane Clairmont, die zwei außereheliche Kinder mit in die Ehe brachte. Das jüngere von ihnen ging unter dem Namen Claire Clairmont als kurzzeitige Geliebte von Lord Byron in die Literaturgeschichte ein.
