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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
In a house on this site lived Gregory de Rokesley, eight times Mayor of London, 1274 - 1281 and 1285. The Corporation of the City of London
See Spitalfields Life for a good post on the Caslon Foundry. April 2017: John Whitehead told us the plaque has been removed by developer...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
The Biblical quotation at the end of the inscription is from 1 John 3:16. This is a very unusual style for a WW1 memorial and we think i...
Gilbert Bayes, 1872 - 1953, sculptor, lived here 1931 - 1953. English Heritage
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