Our Hands Are Pale as Milk

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When the rakish poet Percy Bysshe Shelley charms his way into the sheltered lives of three sisters calamity follows. Fanny the eldest at nineteen is sent away to recover from her broken heart while Mary and Claire both sixteen run away with the married Shelley. The Poet sees himself as the savior of young women even as he seals Fanny's doom steals Mary's heart and offers Claire a nomadic existence. To remain in Percy and Mary's bright orbit Claire Clairmont becomes a muse to Shelley a lover to the great Lord Byron and a witness to Mary's creation of Frankenstein. And yet once pregnant with Byron's child Claire has no voice in determining her own future.  In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Our Hands Are Pale as Milk</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Claire at last relates her story of love and suffering at the hands of poets Shelley and Byron. Hers is a cautionary tale for all women who fall in love.</span></p><p></p>