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Claire Clairmont (1798–1879)

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Canonical name
Clairmont, Claire
Legal name
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane
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Date of birth
1798-04-27
Date of death
1879-03-19
Burial location
Cimitero Monumentale della Misericordia di Santa Maria, Antella
Gender
female
Nationality
UK
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London, England, UK
Bath, England, UK
Florence, Italy
Pisa, Italy
Moscow, Russia
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diarist
governess
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Shelley, Mary (stepsister)
Moore, Margaret King (mentor)
Byron, Lord (lover)
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Clara Mary Jane or "Claire" Clairmont became a stepsister of Mary Shelley when Mary's father William Godwin married Claire's mother Mary Jane. Claire accompanied Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley on their elopement in 1814 and their travels around Europe, including to the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva where Mary conceived the novel Frankenstein. Through them, she met Lord Byron, with whom she had a daughter, Allegra (who died at age 5).
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