Margaret King
Margaret King (1773–1835), also known as
Margaret King Moore,
Lady Mount Cashell and
Mrs Mason, was an Anglo-Irish hostess, and a writer of female-emancipatory fiction and health advice. Despite her wealthy aristocratic background, she had republican sympathies and advanced views on education and women's rights, shaped in part by having been a favoured pupil of
Mary Wollstonecraft. Settling in Italy in later life, she reciprocated her governess's care by offering maternal aid and advice to Wollstonecraft's daughter
Mary Shelley (author of ''
Frankenstein'') and her travelling companions, husband
Percy Bysshe Shelley and stepsister
Claire Clairmont. In Pisa, she continued the study of medicine which she had begun in Germany and published her widely read ''Advice to Young Mothers'', as well as a novel, ''The Sisters of Nansfield: A Tale for Young Women.''
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