Eveleen Laura Mason Explained

Eveleen Laura Mason
Birth Name:Eveleen Laura Knaggs
Birth Date:September 3, 1838
Birth Place:Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Date:September 7, 1914 (aged 76)
Death Place:Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation:Writer, suffragist, clubwoman

Eveleen Laura Knaggs Mason (September 3, 1838 – September 7, 1914) was an American writer, suffragist, and clubwoman.

Early life and education

Knaggs was born in Boston, the daughter of Thomas Jackson Knaggs and Elizabeth Milner Knaggs.[1]

Career

Mason taught school as a young woman, fostered children in her home, and worked to establish a travelers' aid program for young women new to Boston.[2] She was a member of the Brookline Education Society,[3] a vice president of the Moral Education Association of Massachusetts,[4] and founder and president of the Queens of Home Club.[5] [6] She wrote fiction and non-fiction with utopian, feminist, political and spiritualist themes.[7] [8] [9] Her work is sometimes counted with early American science fiction by women writers.

Mason gave the opening prayer at an 1880 National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Chicago,[10] and she spoke at the 1884 meeting of the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Convention.[11] "Miss Eveleen L. Mason, an attractive, refined-looking lady, made one of the best speeches of the morning", reported The Inter Ocean in 1880. "She has heard it objected to woman suffrage that woman was the helpmeet of man. She thought that was the very reason why she should take a part".[12]

Publications

Personal life

Knaggs married Baptist minister August Francke Hermann Mason in 1863. Her husband died in 1903, and she died in 1914, at the age of 76, in Brookline, Massachusetts.[21]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 1914-09-08 . Devoted Her Life to Good Work; Mrs. Eveleen Laura Mason, Widow of Rev. A. F. Mason, D.D. . 2024-07-09 . Boston Evening Transcript . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: Daring to dream : Utopian stories by United States women, 1836-1919 . 1984 . Boston : Pandora Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-86358-013-0 . Kessler . Carol Farley . 138-139.
  3. Book: Brookline Education Society (Brookline, Mass.) . Year Book of the Brookline Education Society. . 1896 . Harvard University . 47 .
  4. News: 1904-05-26 . History Half Taught; Only One Side, that of Strife, is Fully Shown . 2024-07-09 . The Boston Globe . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1896-06-16 . Queens of Home Club; Ladies and Gentlemen Discourse Upon American Principles . 2024-07-09 . Boston Post . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1896-07-05 . Water Lily as National Flower . 2024-07-09 . The Boston Globe . 9.
  7. Donaldson . Laura E. . October 1989 . The eve of de‐struction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the feminist recreation of paradise . Women's Studies . en . 16 . 3-4 . 373–387 . 10.1080/00497878.1989.9978776 . 0049-7878.
  8. Lewes . Darby . 1993 . Middle-Class Edens: Women's Nineteenth-century Utopian Fiction and the Bourgeois Ideal . Utopian Studies . 4 . 1 . 14–25 . 1045-991X.
  9. Lewes . Darby . 1989 . Gynotopia: A Checklist of Nineteenth-Century Utopias by American Women . Legacy . 6 . 2 . 29–41 . 0748-4321.
  10. News: 1880-06-01 . Woman's Suffrage . 2024-07-09 . The Inter Ocean . 8 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1884-08-26 . Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Convention . 2024-07-09 . The Boscobel Dial . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1880-06-03 . Want the Ballot; The Women Represented in the National Suffrage Association Convention Do, Very Much . 2024-07-09 . The Inter Ocean . 8 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Mason, Eveleen Laura . Hiero-salem : the vision of peace, a fiction founded on ideals which are grounded in the real, that is greater than the greatest of all human great ideals . 1889 . Boston : J.G. Cupples Company . New York Public Library.
  14. Mason, Eveleen Laura. "What is America's Relation to England?" The Arena 17 (1896): 930-946. via Internet Archive
  15. Book: Mason, Eveleen L. (Eveleen Laura) . An episode in the doings of the dualized .. . 1898 . [Boston, Press of Fish & Libby] . The Library of Congress.
  16. Book: Mason, Eveleen L. (Eveleen Laura) . Who builds? A romance ... Dedicated to brother builders of the 32⁰ and 33⁰ of Ancient Scottish rites and to builders yet more ancient the world throughout . 1909 . [Brookline? Mass.] . The Library of Congress.
  17. Book: Mason, Eveleen L. (Eveleen Laura) . Mad? Which? Neither? . Geo. H. Ellis (Firm) pbl . 1904 . [Boston : G.H. Ellis] . New York Public Library.
  18. Book: Eveleen Laura Mason . Twelve Outputs Selected from Among Lectures and Articles Put Out from 1879 to Summer Tide of 1907 . 1907 . New York Public Library . English.
  19. Book: Mason, Eveleen L. (Eveleen Laura) . The discovery of dicoveries . 1909 . [Brookline? Mass.] . New York Public Library.
  20. News: Mason . Eveleen Laura . 1908-01-25 . 'Enthralling and Subjugating Men' . 2024-07-09 . The Woman's Tribune . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  21. Web site: SFE: Mason, Eveleen Laura . 2024-07-08 . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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