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<p>You write the most amusing and clever letters in the world... If your letters are ever published, all others that ever were published before will fall in the shade, and you will be looked on as the best letter writer that ever charmed their friends.--Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, 29 November 1842</p><p>Claire Clairmont embodied English romanticism in her life, her journals, and especially in her letters. As step-daughter of William Godwin, as companion to Shelley and Mary on their elopement, as Shelley's Constantia, as mother of Byron's Allegra, as a regular member of the Shelley circle (close to Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Hogg, Lady Mount Cashell, and Trelawny), as governess in Russia during the Decembrist Revolution, as confidante of Mary Shelley and Jane Williams in their middle years, and, in her old age, as the inspiration of Henry James's The Aspern Papers, she both lived and recorded the Romantic Revolution.</p><p>Brought up in the same household as Mary Shelley, dedicated to the principles of Mary Wollstonecraft, Claire was a more enthusiastic feminist than Mary, and her letters on this theme are always arresting, often hilarious. She wrote on the perils of marriage, on th
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- Author
- Claire Clairmont; Charles Clairmont; Fanny Imlay Godwin; Marion Kingston Stocking
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press; Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801846335
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Adventure
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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