Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque

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At this modest site in what was then Somers Town, Mary Wollstonecraft found a brief sanctuary in 1793-94, writing and teaching while living among other radical intellectuals who had fled persecution elsewhere in Europe. It was here, in what she described as her "little cottage," that she worked on h...

Location

Oakshott Court, Werrington Street, NW1

Inscription

In a house on this site lived Mary Wollstonecraft author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1759-1797