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" Clairmont You know --& I believe saw once that odd-headed girl — who introduced herself to me shortly before I left England — but you do not know — that I found her with Shelley and her sister at Geneva — I never loved her nor pretended to love her — but a man is a man --& if a girl of eighteen comes prancing to you at all hours of the night — there is but one way — the suite of all this is that she was with child --& returned to England to assist in peopling that desolate island ... This comes of " putting it about " ( as Jackson calls it ) & be dammed to it — and thus people come into the world.
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Clairmont and I
I am so awkward and only feel inclined to take a little stool and sit at your feet ," Clairmont wrote to Byron.
Clairmont wrote to Mary Shelley ; " He likes a turbid and troubled life ; I a quiet one ; he is full of fine feeling and has no principles ; I am full of fine principles but never had a feeling ( in my life ).
Clairmont and believe
Mary Shelley revised this poem, completely altering the first two stanzas, when she included it in a posthumous collection of Shelley's works published in 1824 .< In Shelley's " Epipsychidion ," some scholars believe that he is addressing Clairmont as his
Clairmont and once
The following year, Clairmont and the Shelleys left England and journeyed once more to Byron, who now resided in Italy.
Edward John Trelawny Two Russian men she met commented on her general disdain for the male sex ; irritated by their assumption that since she was always falling in love, she would return their affections if they flirted with her, Clairmont joked in a letter to Mary Shelley that perhaps she should fall in love with both of them at once and prove them wrong.
Clairmont and who
Neither Medora nor her mother met Byron's daughter by Claire Clairmont, Allegra Byron, who died at age five in 1822 in an Italian convent.
Clairmont aided her stepsister's clandestine meetings with Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had professed a belief in free love and soon left his own wife and two small children to be with Mary.
Clairmont, who was surrounded by poets and writers, also made her own literary attempts.
Shortly after Clairmont had introduced Shelley to Byron she met Edward John Trelawny, who was to play a major role in the short remaining lives of both poets.
In 1806, William Godwin ( Mary Wollstonecraft's widower ) and his second wife Mary Jane Godwin ( mother of Claire Clairmont ), who had become close with the Lambs through their shared literary work of the past few years, asked Mary to write something for their Juvenile Library.
Clairmont and herself
Her mother had identified him as a " Charles Clairmont ", adopting the name Clairmont for herself and her children, to disguise their illegitimacy.
Clairmont felt that the future Byron could provide for their daughter would be greater than any she herself would be able to grant the child and, therefore, wished to deliver Allegra into his care.
* The story of the unconventional menage a trois was filmed in 1988 with Laura Dern playing the part of Shelley's future sister-in-law, released as Haunted Summer ( see Youtube for trailer ) where the dramatists evoke certain salutory lessons on intimate relationships the mature Clairmont envisaged publishing herself )
Clairmont and before
Any romantic designs Clairmont might have had on Shelley were frustrated initially, but she did bring the Shelleys into contact with Lord Byron, with whom she entered into an affair before he left England in 1816 to live abroad.
Byron, in a depressed state after the break-up of his marriage to Annabella Milbanke and scandal over his relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, made it very clear to Clairmont before he left that she would not be a part of his life.
She paid for Clairmont to travel to her brother's home in Vienna where she stayed for a year, before relocating to Russia, where she worked as a governess from 1825 to 1828.
Clairmont and England
Clairmont returned to England in 1836 and worked as a music teacher.
Clairmont and found
And no evidence can be found that Clairmont was considered as the translator for Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Clairmont and her
She contrived to send the volatile and emotionally intense Clairmont to boarding school for a time, thus providing her with more formal education than her stepsisters.
" What shall poor Cordelia do-Love & be silent ," Clairmont wrote in her journal while reading King Lear.
Clairmont later followed up her letters with visits, sometimes with her stepsister Mary Godwin, whom she seemed to suggest Byron might also find attractive.
It is unknown whether or not Clairmont knew she was pregnant with Byron's child at the commencement of the trip, but it soon became apparent to both her traveling companions and to Byron not long after their arrival at his door.
Clairmont was to say later that her relationship with Byron had given her only a few minutes of pleasure, but a lifetime of trouble.
Throughout the pregnancy, Clairmont had written long letters to Byron, pleading for his attention and a promise to care for her and the baby, sometimes making fun of his friends, reminding him how much he had enjoyed making love to her, and sometimes threatening suicide.
He arranged to have Allegra delivered to his house in Venice and agreed to raise the child on the condition that Clairmont keep her distance from him.
Their friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg joked about " Shelley and his two wives ," Mary and Claire, a remark that Clairmont recorded in her own journal.
Clairmont was also entirely in sympathy, more so than Mary, with Shelley's theories about free love, communal living, and the right of a woman to choose her own lovers and initiate sexual contact outside of marriage.
At the time Percy Shelley wrote the poem, in Pisa, Clairmont was living in Florence, and the lines may reveal how much he missed her.
Clairmont was granted only a few brief visits with her daughter after surrendering her to Byron.
Clairmont and with
" French traders in the area pronounced his name as " Clairmont ," which means " mountain with a clear view.
The family was completed with the birth of a boy to Mary Jane and William, giving Claire Clairmont a younger brother.
Clairmont, unlike Mary Shelley, was fluent in French when she was a teenager and later was credited with fluency in five different languages.
Lord Byron At sixteen, Clairmont was a lively, voluptuous brunette with a good singing voice and a hunger for recognition.
When Mary ran away with Shelley in July 1814, Clairmont went with them.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Clairmont may have been sexually involved with Percy Bysshe Shelley at different periods, though Clairmont's biographers, Gittings and Manton, find no hard evidence.
Scholar Bradford A. Booth suggested in 1938 that Clairmont, driven by a need for money, might have been the true author of most of " The Pole ," an 1830 short story that appeared in the magazine The Court Assembly and Belle Assemblée as by " The Author of Frankenstein " Unlike Mary Shelley, Clairmont was familiar with the Polish used in the story.
Clairmont and Shelley
* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
He was present at the famous gathering at the Villa Diodati on 16 June 1816 when Byron issued a challenge to him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont to write a ghost story.
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont ( 27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879 ), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was a stepsister of writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
Clairmont remained in the Shelley household in their wanderings across Europe.
Clairmont and Mary Shelley also made fair copies of Byron's work-in-progress, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which he was in the process of writing.
Mary Shelley's early journals record several times when Clairmont and Shelley shared visions of Gothic horror and let their imaginings take flight, stirring each others ' emotions to the point of hysteria and nightmares.
In October 1814, Shelley deliberately frightened Clairmont by assuming a particularly sinister and horrifying facial expression.
In the autumn of 1814 Clairmont and Shelley also discussed forming " an association of philosophical people " and Clairmont's conception of an idealized community in which women were the ones in charge.
Mary Shelley, about 1820 It has occasionally been suggested that Clairmont was also the mother of a daughter fathered by Percy Shelley.
The possibility goes back to the accusation by Shelley's servants, Elise and Paolo Foggi, that Clairmont gave birth to Percy Shelley's baby during a stay in Naples, where, on 27 February 1819, Percy Shelley registered a baby named Elena Adelaide Shelley as having been born on 27 December 1818.
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