Frances Maule Bjorkman Explained

Frances Maule Bjorkman (1879–1966) was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.[1] [2] She was a member of the Heterodoxy women's group.[3] She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.

Biography

Frances Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska on October 24, 1879. She attended Notre Dame of Maryland University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She married Swedish author Edwin Björkman in New York City in 1906. She was a Socialist active in the feminist movement. After separating from her husband Maule began a long-term, same-sex relationship with fellow Heterodoxy member Kathleen de Vere Taylor that lasted throughout the 1930s and 1940s. They lived together first in Manhattan and then in Woodstock, New York.[4] [5] After Taylor's death in 1949 Maule inherited the house and lived there until her own death in 1966.[6]

Writings

Notes and References

  1. News: The fifty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association got down to business to-day with three well-attended sessions in the auditorium of the new Masonic Temple. . 35 Delegates to Washington Convention Settling Down to Real Business. Plan to Raise Funds for National Body by Per Capita Tax of State Association Members. ... Eleanor Byrnes, and Frances Maule BJorkman, reported ... . . December 2, 1913 . 2009-11-19 .
  2. Book: Douglas Clayton . Douglas Clayton . Floyd Dell: the life and times of an American rebel . 1994 . Frances Maule Bjorkman, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote Dell while the series was running in the Friday Literary Review during ... . 1-56663-059-2 .
  3. Book: Schwarz, Judith. Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940. 1986. New Victoria Publishers. Norwich, VT. 0-934678-08-1. Rev.. 123. registration.
  4. West 30th Street, New York City, 1940 US Census
  5. Web site: Ulster County, NY - SearchIQS. 2021-03-17. www.searchiqs.com.
  6. Web site: Ulster County, NY - SearchIQS. 2021-03-17. www.searchiqs.com.