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
E8, Mare Street, 373-5
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Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godw...
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spita...
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Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Gerald Durrell, 1925 - 1995, zoologist and writer, lived here as a child. English Heritage
Plaque unveiled by Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham.
We can't find evidence but it seems likely that when owned by the Jesus Hospital Charity the Tudor Hall was used as almshouses.
The development of the southern side of Great Queen Street is complex: it's a story of overlapping rebuildings and extensions to the Free...
The opening of a temporary library seems a rather minor event for which to get a King out of bed. Given the date perhaps the war had dama...
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