Memorial

Mary Wollstonecraft - E8 Mary Wollstonecraft - E8

Plaque: Mary Wollstonecraft - E8

Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797, author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Women', pioneer of women's rights and mother of Mary Shelley.  Stayed in a house on this site in 1784 and lived early years in Hoxton.
London Borough of Hackney 

Site: Mary Wollstonecraft - E8 (1 memorial)

E8, Mare Street, 373-5

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Subjects commemorated

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Mary Shelley

Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Go...

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time.  Born Primrose Street, Spit...

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Hackney Council

Shoreditch Borough Council took over Shoreditch Vestry and was itself taken o...

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