1st Edition

The Clairmont Family Journals 1855-1885

Edited By Sharon Joffe Copyright 2021
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

This edition presents the extant journals of Pauline Clairmont (1825–1891) and Wilhelm Clairmont (1831–1895), the niece and nephew of Claire Clairmont (1798–1879) who was Mary Shelley’s (1797–1851) stepsister. It also includes a journal originally attributed to Pauline but which likely was Walter Gaulis Clairmont’s (1868–1958; Wilhelm’s son). All three journals are currently deposited in the Carl... Read more

Acknowledgments

Editorial Standards and Practices

List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Editorial Symbols

Chronology of Pauline Clairmont

Chronology of Wilhelm Clairmont

Chapter One: Introduction: The History of the Shelley and Clairmont Families

Chapter Two: Pauline Clairmont’s Australian Journal (1855–1857)

Chapter Three: Wilhelm Clairmont’s Journal (1861)

Chapter Four: "Meine Fussreise im Juli 1885": Walter Clairmont’s Journal (German transcription and English translation; 1885)

Chapter Five: Pauline Clairmont, the Governess Occupation, and the Genre of Life Writing

Appendix A: The Godwin-Shelley-Clairmont Family Genealogical Table

Appendix B: Historicizing the Journals: Australia, Austria, and the Banat

Appendix C: Wilhelm Clairmont’s 1873 Certificate of Appointment as an Appraiser

Appendix D: Pauline Clairmont’s 1891 Death Certificate

Appendix E: William Godwin and Mary Jane Clairmont’s "Certified Copy of a Marriage Certificate" from 1940

Appendix F: Walter Clairmont’s and Alma Crüwell-Clairmont’s testimonies from the 1930s

Appendix G: Rosalie Lady Mander’s Letters from 1937–1938 to Alma Crüwell-Clairmont

Index

Biography

Sharon L. Joffe is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Lamar University, USA