In Popular Culture
Clairmont was portrayed by Elizabeth Hurley in the Goya award winning 1988 Spanish film Rowing with the Wind. She was portrayed by Myriam Cyr in the 1986 Ken Russell film "Gothic"; and by Laura Dern in "Haunted Summer" (1988). All three films focus on the 1816 trip to Switzerland during which Clairmont aimed to reunite with Byron and Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein.
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