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.
REFERENCES TO Clara Mary Jane Clairmont: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 28 October 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 5 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 9 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 Mary Jane Godwin to William Godwin, 30 August 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 18 December 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 13 January 1817 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 June 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 19 September 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 21 September 1818 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Mary Jane Godwin, 29 May 1822 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 1: ¶ 68 Life of Byron: 1818 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 3: ¶ 17 ¶ 85 ¶ 86 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ 3 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. IV.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (October 1832) 305-319 Found 1: ¶ 22 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Switzerland: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 2 Byron and Claire Found 4: ¶ 13 ¶ 18 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 Casa Magni Found 1: ¶ 11 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Found 1: ¶ 6 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. VI. 1804-1806 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 1: ¶ 30 Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 5: ¶ 6 ¶ 11 ¶ 14 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 8: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 ¶ 16 ¶ 18 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 31 Ch. X. 1819-1824 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 13 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) VI. Lady Byron’s Policy of Silence Found 1: ¶ n1 XI. Byron and Augusta Found 2: ¶ n2 ¶ n1