Education
Sometime later they then moved to live in Pisa where she studied under Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, at the University of Pisa.
translator sage author of Frankenstein
Sometime later they then moved to live in Pisa where she studied under Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, at the University of Pisa.
They began a passionate affair around 1803 which continued until her death at Pisa in January 1835. Lord and Lady Mountcashell did not legally separate until 1821, by which time she had been living with Tighe for almost 20 years. Around 1806, Tighe and Lady Mountcashell moved to Jena where she was to assume the guise of a man to study medicine.
The couple remained at Pisa until their deaths.
Tighe and Lady Mountcashell lived together at Casa Silva, Pisa under the name of "Mr and Mrs Mason". The name comes from the only children"s book written by the pioneer educator and proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who served as Margaret King"s governess and inspired great devotion.
Some of Wollstonecraft"s experiences during this year made their way into Original Stories from Real Life (1788). The maternal teacher who frames these stories is called Mrs Mason.
"Mrs Mason" felt maternal towards the women, as they were both in a sense daughters of her life-changing motherly governess.
She offered "sage advice" to Shelley about his health and to Clairmont about her career. She introduced them all to a new intellectual and social circle in Pisa, and helped Mary set up her household, finding them pleasant lodgings and advising on servants. Tighe provided Percy Shelley with a great deal of material on chemistry, biology, and statistics.
Tighe made a "secret trip to Ravenna and Bagnacavallo to find out what he could about the convent and Allegra"s treatment there".
Around the same time, Marchand mentions a "orphan girl named Elizabeth Parker, who was living with them " who seems to have shared the poor opinions held by Tighe regarding Lord Byron. They are both buried in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno.
A copy of Tighe"s will is held in The National Archives at Kew. This received English probate on 22 August 1837 as Tighe remained a British citizen at his death.
Tighe and Lady Margaret King had two daughters: Anna Laura Georgina "Laurette", (1809-1880) Catherine Elizabeth Raniera "Nerina", (1815-1874).
The Masons inspired the Shelleys with "a new-found sense of radicalism".