![]() ![]() ![]() On a stormy night at Lake Geneva, where the three were Lord Byron’s guests, as Claire entreats him to accept she is carrying his child, the notion that becomes ‘Frankenstein, is born in Mary Godwin. Chief amongst Mary Godwin’s desires was to write as she felt destined always. In 2010, a researcher discovered an unpublished memoir by Claire Clairmont that described Bysshe and Lord Byron, who betrayed her mercilessly, as ‘ monsters of lying, meanness, cruelty and treachery.‘ Sharon Dogar recreates the relationship between the three, and thereafter Lord Byron- their passions, beliefs, sorrow, and desires. ![]() It is evident that Mary Godwin loves Bysshe, but what of Claire Clairmont? Rumours abound of a daughter with Bysshe… ‘Bysshe’ espouses ‘free love’ that people should have the freedom from convention to choose who they love. Adding heat to the scandal is the presence of Claire Clairmont, Mary’s younger stepsister. These erupt into one of the scandals of the Romantic age, when sixteen-year old Mary Godwin runs away with Bysshe, who abandons his wife, pregnant with their second child. Already this young man has stories growing around him and his philosophies. William Godwin is determined to raise money from young poet and baronet Percy Bysshe Shelley. ![]()
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