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 ...
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on Gibbon.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some research and found that Job H. Drain was living here with his family from about 1976 - at least ...
Professor Slobodan Yovanovitch, 1869-1958, Serbian historian, literary critic, legal scholar, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, lived here, 1...
Sir Harry Vane, statesman, lived here. Born 1612. Beheaded 1662. {Almost hidden in the decorative border:} Erected by the Society of Arts
Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman.
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