Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of English writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.

Thrown together as infants by the marriage of their parents William Godwin and Mary Jane Clairmont in December 1801, it seems inevitable that the two, less than a year apart in age, should have grown up together as codependent, competitive, and …

Claire Clairmont, born in 1798 in Brislington, England, had a childhood like a Gothic novel. She knew who her mother was—but what she didn’t know for sure was the identity of her father. Mom said it was a guy called Charles Clairmont, but the man was like a ghost who never appeared.

Clara Maria Constantina Jane Clairmont (Stocking 13), commonly known as Claire Clairmont, was a stepsister to Mary Shelley, partner of Lord Byron, and mother of his child, Allegra. Clairmont believed herself to be born 27 April 1798 and she died 19 March 1879.

Mary Jane Clairmont (1798 – 1879), who called herself Claire, was the stepsister of writer Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and best known as the author of...

2014年3月28日 · Claire Clairmont was the archetypal Romantic woman, far more than her more famous step-sister, Mary Shelley.

2013年3月1日 · Clara Mary Jane Clairmont, commonly known as “Claire,” step-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and member of the Shelley circle. An aspiring novelist and writer of significant journals and letters, she spent many years as a governess, and was the mother of Lord Byron's child Allegra.