Mary Gough

Mary Fisher Gough (9 May 1832 – 29 December 1896) was an Irish women's activist, teacher, and promoter of women's education.

Life Mary Fisher Gough was born on 9 May 1832, one of five children born to Josiah Richard Gough and Deborah Fisher. She lived, died, and was probably born in Dublin. She was said to believe suffrage to be "a just right". She taught scrivenery there for two decades, 1860–80, the life of the Institute. Gough also ran the stationery kiosk there. In her entry on Gough for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Kathryn Gleadle described her "teaching of such a vocational course" as being "suggestive of her progressive ideas concerning female employment".

In her later years, due to paralysis, Gough was forced to support her causes less actively. Nonetheless she "followed all the movements for women and the great questions of the day with an interest befitting a disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller and John Stuart Mill".

Gough died at home in Dublin on 29 December 1896. The Englishwoman's Review remembered her as an "early worker for the cause of women" who "gave it [the fight for the vote] her help wherever she could".