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Who was William Godwin's second wife?

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Alice Wollincroft

  • Mary Jane Clairmont

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Mary Jane Clairmont was William Godwin's second wife, whom he married in 1816. She was the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Godwin and Clairmont had a tumultuous relationship, and they separated in 1822.
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