Margaret Countess of Mountcashel

Standard Name: Mountcashel, Margaret,,, Countess of
Used Form: Mrs Mason
Birth Name: Margaret King

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Fanny Holcroft
FH , in Paris, was briefly engaged by Lady Mountcashel as her daughters' governess, at a salary of sixty pounds a year. But she was dismissed within three weeks for reasons that remain disputable.
qtd. in
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press, 1997–1998, 2 vols.
2:87
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
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...
Occupation Mary Wollstonecraft
She took strongly against the manners of the aristocracy but formed a strong bond with the eldest of her three pupils, Margaret King , who was fourteen years old, tall and plain, with a wonderful...
Occupation William Godwin
The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson : visitors included Germaine de Staël . It remained, however...
Textual Features Mary Wollstonecraft
MW structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS wrote a thirty-page children's story, Maurice; or, The Fisher's Cot, for the eleventh birthday of Laurette, daughter of her friend Lady Mountcashel (Shelley's mother's former pupil Margaret King).
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
414

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