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Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals.
Jean Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, suffered from epilepsy and postictal psychosis, a condition that caused her to act violently after seizures. Learn about her life, treatments, and family challenges in this article by Laura Skandera Trombley.
Jean Clemens (1880-1910), youngest daughter of Sam Clemens, was the invalid of the family. Like her older sisters, she provided Clemens with an audience and source of inspiration while she was young.
Jun 28, 2009 · Jean Clemens was the youngest and least known daughter of the famous writer Mark Twain. She suffered from epilepsy, rebelled against her father's restrictions, and became an animal-rights activist and a wood carver.
May 20, 2016 · The social norms of the Victorian era prevented Sam Clemens’s youngest daughter, Jean, from typical women’s roles as wife and mother because of her epilepsy, so she turned her hobby,...
In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she. recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in a Katonah, New York, epileptic colony: It was desperately hard to leave Father and Clara in order to come out to a. totally strange place.
REDDING, Conn., Dec. 24. -- Miss Jean Clemens youngest daughter of Mark Twain, was found dead in the bathtub at Stormfield, Mr. Clemens's country home near here, early this morning. Her body...
