English author, publisher, and bookseller (1768–1841)
Mary Jane Godwin
Born
Mary Jane de Vial
1768
Exeter, Devon, England
Died
17 June 1841(1841-06-17) (aged 72–73)
London, England
Other names
Mary Jane Clairmont
Occupation(s)
Author, publisher, bookseller
Spouse
William Godwin
(m. 1801; died 1836)
Children
3; including Claire and William
Relatives
Fanny Imlay (stepdaughter) Mary Shelley (stepdaughter) Allegra Byron (granddaughter)
Mary Jane Godwin (née de Vial; pseudoymned Mary Jane Clairmont; 1768 – 17 June 1841)[1] was an English author, publisher, and bookseller.[2] She was the second wife of William Godwin and stepmother to Mary Shelley.[3]
^Perkins, Pam (2004). "Godwin [formerly Clairmont; née de Vial], Mary Jane (1768–1841), translator and bookseller". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67901. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 6 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^McCalman, Iain; Mee, Jon; Russell, Gillian; Tuite, Clara; Fullagar, Kate; Hardy, Patsy, eds. (1999), "Godwin, Mary Jane", An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199245437.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-924543-7, retrieved 6 December 2020
^Jump, Harriet Devine (1 October 1999). "Monstrous stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin". Women's Writing. 6 (3): 297–308. doi:10.1080/09699089900200076. ISSN 0969-9082. PMID 22624188.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing...
known as Mary Shelley, would go on to write Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. With his second wife, MaryJane Clairmont, Godwin set up...
as the Juvenile Library. Godwin encouraged all of his children to read widely and give lectures from early childhood. MaryJane Clairmont was a sharp-tongued...
William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife MaryJane Clairmont and their combined family of five children. Fanny's half-sister Mary grew...
Jack and the Bean Stalk, possibly actually edited by William and/or MaryJaneGodwin. The story is older than these accounts. According to researchers at...
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Godwin's) work. Godwin was the only son of William Godwin the elder, by his second wife, MaryJane formerly Clairmont. His elder half-siblings and step-siblings...
Johnson's circle again, in particular with Mary Hays, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Sarah Siddons through William Godwin. Godwin and Wollstonecraft's unique courtship...
Story of Mary: Who Wanted To Stand On Her Head is a 2005 Children's chapter book by JaneGodwin. It is a rhyming story about a girl called Mary who, upon...
his mentor Godwin almost daily, and soon fell in love with Mary, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Godwin and the late feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft...
radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. She was born in 1759, into a family of...
(1941–2020) Anette Gleichmann (born 1964) Elizabeth Glover (1602–1643) MaryJaneGodwin (1768–1841) Lennie Goodings (born 1953) Phyllis E. Grann (born 1937)...
McNamara, Mary (May 19, 2009). "'Glee' on Fox". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 11, 2010. Godwin, Jennifer (July 7, 2009). "Who Could Replace Jane Lynch...
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III (1990), Single White...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft. Rarely published in the nineteenth century...
Gail Godwin (born June 18, 1937) is an American novelist and short story writer. Godwin has written 14 novels, two short story collections, three non-fiction...
Jack and the Beanstalk. Tabart had for an editor MaryJane Clairmont, the second wife of William Godwin, and maintained close professional relations with...
William Godwin, having never known her mother. Godwin hired a nurse, who briefly cared for her and her half sister, before marrying second wife MaryJane Clairmont...
was set aside within weeks of his death and Mary became queen, deposing and executing Jane. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a...
wanted, to Mary. Mary's supporters joined her in a triumphal procession to London, accompanied by her younger sister Elizabeth. Lady Jane and her father...
Young Women (two-volume novel) (1824) Godwin-Shelley family tree Clairmont, Clara MaryJane; Clairmont, Charles; Godwin, Fanny Imlay; Stocking, Marion Kingston...
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