Clara Mary Jane Clairmont

(1798-1879)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane, 1798-1879 NRA: Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (1798-1879) mistress of Lord Byron, called 'Claire' DNB: Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane [Claire] (1798-1879), a member of the Shelley-Byron circle LBT ID: ClClair1879 VIAF ID: 25404684 LOC ID: n50041885	B/BAP: 1798 DIED: 1879-03-19
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The illegitimate daughter of the second Mrs. William Godwin; she was part of the Shelley household in Italy and the mother of Byron's daughter Allegra, afterwards working as a governess in Russia.