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Clairemont, Claire

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Clairemont, Claire (1798-1879)

English mistress of the poet Lord Byron. Their daughter, Allegra, was born in 1817, but Byron later removed the child as he disapproved of Clairemont's methods of childcare. Allegra died in a convent near Ravenna at the age of five.

Clairemont began her affair with Byron in London after accompanying her step-sister Mary Godwin's elopement with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. Following the death of her daughter, she lived abroad for the rest of her life.



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