She was not seriously wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child.
Īccording to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been "his wife" he also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself "Florence Wellman Chaney". Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. īiographer Clarice Stasz and others believe London's father was astrologer William Chaney. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones.
He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and " The Heathen".įlora and John London, Jack's mother and stepfather His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories " To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. John Griffith Chaney (Janu– November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist.
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