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...The tale it relates dates back to the famously stormy summer of 1816, when Mary, her free-spirited poet lover Percy, and Mary’s attractive, excitable stepsister Claire Clairmont spent their days beside Lake...
...James Clairmont, who runs the Craggy Range Sheep Dairy in Hawke’s Bay on New Zealand’s North Island, told the Financial Times that similar demonstrations could recur as Ardern had become “hell-bent” on reducing...
...Here he also encounters Miss Clairmont, one of many lovers; indeed, aside from his manner of being “spontaneously driven by absolute conviction”, women are the only constant in Cashel’s story....
...She shows us Shelley locked in the early throes of a passionate affair of the head and body with her poet-husband Percy; nearby, Shelley’s step-sister Claire Clairmont is trapped in an antagonistic dalliance...
...Clairmont and Bishop’s night-time encounter in a boathouse is creepy and Goode brings a hollowed-out world-weariness to his role, while Edward Bluemel winningly plays his youthful acolyte. ★★★☆☆ Follow...
...Eventually, when the infant Mary is four, he marries his neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont, and acquires another stepdaughter, Jane, and soon another son, William....
...despised Clairmont histrionics.”...
...Today’s cult of cool has nothing on irresistible Byron, overshadowed by the hint of incest, obsessed by his weight; Claire Clairmont hurling herself at him across Europe; the shockingly eloping Shelleys;...
...Anne Wroe’s remarkable Being Shelley analysed his poetry and psychology, while feminist scholarship has tackled the lives of Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont....
...Shelley, four years younger than Byron, twice eloped with girls of 16 – the second time with Mary Godwin, taking with them her half-sister, Jane Clairmont, to make up a ménage-à-trois....
...In fact, Mr Drucker knew so much about oriental art that he became a professional lecturer in the subject at Pomona College, a private liberal-arts college in Clairmont, California....
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