What did Mary Wollstonecraft do at Oakshott Court?

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 her politically-charged "An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution," drawing from her own harrowing experiences in Revolutionary Paris.

The location proved significant not just for her writing but for her personal life - it was during her time at this address that she began her complex relationship with William Godwin, who would later become her husband, as they moved in the same literary and philosophical circles of north London.

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