Mona Caird

Mona Caird
Portrait of Mona Caird
1894 engraving based on a photograph by H. S. Mendelssohn
BornAlice Mona Alison
(1854-05-24)24 May 1854
Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
Died4 February 1932(1932-02-04) (aged 77)
Hampstead, London, England
Pen nameG. Noel Hatton
OccupationEssayist, novelist, social reformer
SubjectsFeminism, civil liberties, animal rights
Literary movementNew Woman
Years active1883–1931
Spouse
James Alexander Henryson
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​
(m. 1877; died 1921)​
Children1

Alice Mona Alison Caird[1] (née Alison; 24 May 1854[note 1] – 4 February 1932) was an English novelist and essayist known for feminist writings, which were controversial when they were published.[2] She also advocated for animal rights and civil liberties, and contributed to advancing the interests of the New Woman in the public sphere.[3]

Biography

Caird was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, the elder daughter of John Alison of Midlothian, Scotland, who some biographies claim to have invented the vertical boiler,[4] and Matilda Hector, who the 1871 census records state was born in Schleswig-Holstein, at the time part of Denmark. Her parents were married on 21 June 1853 in St Leonards (near Glenelg, South Australia), her father being based in Melbourne and her mother Matilda the eldest daughter of a prominent citizen.[5] Caird wrote stories and plays from early childhood that reveal a proficiency in French and German as well as English. The art critic Elizabeth Sharp, who married William Sharp, was reportedly a childhood friend of Caird.[citation needed]

In December 1877, she married James Alexander Henryson, son of Sir James Caird. Her husband farmed some 1700 acres (688 ha) of estates in Cassencary, Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Some eight years older, he supported her independence. While he lived at Cassencary and Northbrook House, Micheldever, Hampshire, she spent much time in London and abroad. She mixed with literary people, including Thomas Hardy, who admired her work, and educated herself in the humanities and science.[6] The Cairds had one child, a son born on 22 March 1884 and named Alison James, but whom she called Alister.[7] Her husband adopted the surname Henryson-Caird in 1897; he died in 1921.[8]

Mona Caird died on 4 February 1932 in Hampstead at the age of 77.[9]

Activism

Active in the women's suffrage movement from her early twenties, Caird joined the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1878 and later the Women's Franchise League, the Women's Emancipation Union (WEU), and the London Society for Women's Suffrage. Her essay "Why Women Want the Franchise" was read at the 1892 WEU Conference. In 1908, she published the essay "Militant Tactics and Woman's Suffrage" and took part in the second Hyde Park women's suffrage demonstration. She was also opposed to vivisection, writing much on the subject, including "The Sanctuary of Mercy" (1895), "Beyond the Pale" (1896), "The Ethics of Vivisection" (1900), and a play, "The Logicians: An episode in dialogue" (1902), where characters argue opposing views on the issue.[citation needed]

Caird was a member of the Theosophical Society from 1904 to 1909. Among her later writings is an illustrated volume of travel essays, Romantic Cities of Provence (1906), and novels: The Stones of Sacrifice (1915), showing harmful effects of self-sacrifice on women, and The Great Wave (1931), a work of social-science fiction attacking the racism of negative eugenics.[10]

Literary works

Caird published her first two novels, Whom Nature Leadeth (1883) and One That Wins (1887), under the pseudonym "G. Noel Hatton", but little heed was paid to them. Her later writings bore her own name. She became prominent in 1888 when the Westminster Review printed an article by her, titled "Marriage", in which she analysed indignities historically suffered by women in marriage, calling its present state a "vexatious failure" and advocating equality and autonomy between marriage partners. London's Daily Telegraph responded with a series called "Is Marriage a Failure?", which drew a reported 27,000 letters from around the world and continued for three months.[3] Feeling her views had been misunderstood, she published another article, "Ideal Marriage", later that year. Her many essays on marriage and women's issues written in 1888–1894 were collected in The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Women in 1897.[11]

Caird next published the novel The Wing of Azrael (1889), which deals with marital rape. The protagonist, Viola Sedley, murders her cruel husband in self-defence. Next came a short story collection, A Romance of the Moors (1891), where in the title story, a widowed artist, Margaret Ellwood, counsels a young couple to each become independent and self-sufficient. Her best-known novel, The Daughters of Danaus[12] (1894), tells of Hadria Fullerton, who aspires to be a composer, but finds that her obligations to her family and parents and as a wife and mother, allow little time for it. This has since been regarded by some scholars as a classic of feminist literature. Also well known is her short story "The Yellow Drawing-Room" (1892), where Vanora Haydon defies the conventional separation of spheres of men and women. Such works of hers have been called "fiction of the New Woman".[13]

Bibliography

Caird wrote seven novels, several short stories, various essays and a travel book:[14]

Notes

  1. ^ Her birth year is sometimes incorrectly given as 1855 or 1858: England and Wales birth records make it clear that her birth was registered in the July–September quarter of 1854.

References

  1. ^ "Mona Caird Biography". Victorian Era. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. ^ Hookway, Demelza (2012). "Liberating Conversations: John Stuart Mill and Mona Caird". Literature Compass. 9 (11): 873–883. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00911.x. ISSN 1741-4113.
  3. ^ a b Heilmann, Ann (1 March 1996). "Mona Caird (1854-1932): wild woman, new woman, and early radical feminist critic of marriage and motherhood1". Women's History Review. 5 (1): 67–95. doi:10.1080/09612029600200100. ISSN 0961-2025.
  4. ^ "Caird, Mrs. Mona". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 272–273.
  5. ^ John Hector "Family Notices". Examiner (SA: 1853). 24 June 1853. p. 4. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  6. ^ Broomfield, Andrea; Mitchell, Sally (16 December 2013). Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology. Routledge. ISBN 9781317777588.
  7. ^ "Family Notices". Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA: 1867–1922). 17 May 1884. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  8. ^ "James Alexander Henryson-Caird (1847-1921)". Leeds University Library. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  9. ^ Todd, Janet M. (1989). British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. New York, NY: Continuum. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8044-3334-1.
  10. ^ Kelly, Roger. "Mona Caird". kosmoid.net. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Deviance, disorder and the self: Alice Mona Caird". bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. ^ The Daughters of Danaus
  13. ^ Cano, Marina (18 February 2019). "A Woman's Novel: Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird, and Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine". Victoriographies. 9 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3366/vic.2019.0323. ISSN 2044-2416. S2CID 192526239.
  14. ^ Heilmann, Ann (1996). "Mona Caird (1854–1932): wild woman, new woman, and early radical feminist critic of marriage and motherhood 1". Women's History Review. 5 (1): 67–95. doi:10.1080/09612029600200100.

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