Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879
- Responsibility
- Robert Gittings and Jo Manton.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1992.
- Physical description
- viii, 281 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Gittings, Robert.
- Contributor
- Manton, Jo, 1919-
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography: ([270]-272), and index.
- Contents
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- Part 1 Claire and the Shelleys (1798-1822): Jane among the Godwins (1798-1814)
- Claire and Byron (1814-1816)
- Allegra (1817-1818)
- "no permanent township" (1818-1820)
- the fiery comet (1820-1822)
- deaths by land and sea (1822). Part 2 Travels of Claire (1822-1841): to the North (1822-1823)
- summer in the country (1823-1825)
- hard winters in Moscow (1825-1827)
- reunion in London (1828-1829)
- return to Italy (1829-1832)
- governess in Tuscany (1832-1836)
- "a galley life" (1836-1841). Part 3 Claire's independence (1842-1879): in Paris (1842-1844)
- inheritance (1844-1846)
- conflict at Field Place (1847-1850)
- the Shelleys and the Clairmonts (1850-1868)
- new generations (1868-1872)
- the Shelley papers (1872-1879).
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
-
Claire Clairmont, the step-sister of Mary Shelley, has until now generally been treated as a secondary character in the great dramas of Shelley and Byron. This is the first full account of a long and adventurous life, correcting many misconceptions about her role in the Shelley circle.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Family.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Family.
- Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879 > Family.
- Authors, English > 19th century > Family relationships.
- Adventure and adventurers > Great Britain > Biography.
- Sisters > Great Britain > Biography.
- Romanticism > Great Britain.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1991
- ISBN
- 0198185944
- 9780198185949
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