Imlay, Fanny
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| Birthname | Frances Imlay | ||||
| born on | 14 May 1794 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Le Havre, France, 49n30, 0e08 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m0e08 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   23°53'   18°45 Asc. 24°35'
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Biography
English literary subject, also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft.
She was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator Gilbert Imlay. Fanny's mother wrote about her frequently in her later works, and Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a poem on her death. Fanny grew up in the household of Radical philosopher William Godwin, and her half-sister Mary later wrote Frankenstein and married Shelley, a leading Romantic poet. The Godwin and Shelley families have been the subject of intense academic and popular interest, which includes Fanny; although by the time of her suicide on 9 October 1816 at the age of 22 she had not achieved anything of note.
Relationships
- child->parent relationship with Wollstonecraft, Mary (born 27 April 1759)
- sibling relationship with Shelley, Mary (born 30 August 1797). Notes: half-sister
- has other family relationship with Shelley, Percy Bysshe (born 4 August 1792). Notes: sister-in-law
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Claire Tomalin, "The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft" (2004): "The baby, a girl, was born at two in the afternoon and judged an admirable creature."
Categories
- Personal : Death : Suicide
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure
