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Claire Clairmont was one of the children William Godwin raised with his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin. Clairmont was born in 1798 to Mary Wollstonecraft, a famous writer and philosopher, and William Godwin, a political philosopher and writer. When Wollstonecraft died shortly after giving birth to Clairmont, Godwin married Mary Jane Godwin, who helped to raise Clairmont and her siblings.