One of MS
's close friends, Lady Mountcashel or Mrs Mason, had been a pupil of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
, while Wollstonecraft was a governess. Lady Mountcashel began calling herself Mrs Mason (the...
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Mary Shelley
Laurette's parents were not married to each other: they were living under the Wollstonecraftian
names of Mr and Mrs Mason because Lord Mountcashel would not divorce his wife to allow her to marry George Henry Tighe
