Claire Clairmont

…infant son and Godwin’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont.

…Charles and Jane (later “Claire”). (Mary Godwin also had a half sister, Fanny Imlay, who was born to Wollstonecraft in 1794.) Young Mary did not get along with her stepmother, who was jealous of her stepdaughter. Increasingly, Mary was displaced in the family, especially after the birth of her…

…time) and were living with Claire Clairmont, Godwin’s stepsister. Byron had begun an affair with Clairmont in England, and her determination to continue the relationship was the main reason this group of iconoclasts landed together in Switzerland. Byron rented a villa in the village of Cologny, and Shelley, Godwin, and…