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Margaret, Countess of Mountcashel
Standard Name: Mountcashel, Margaret,,, Countess of
Used Form: Mrs Mason
Birth Name: Margaret King
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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). |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press. 2:87 |
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