Mona Caird

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Standard Name: Caird, Mona
Birth Name: Alice Mona Alison
Married Name: Alice Mona Caird
Pseudonym: G. Noel Hatton
Pseudonym: The Author of Whom Nature Leadeth
MC , until recently very little remembered, caused a sensation in 1888 with her articles calling for reform in marriage practices. She was already at that date a published novelist, and went on issuing novels until 1931, the year before her death, as well as essays, short stories, travel writing, and journalism. She was an important member of the group of New Woman writers of the 1890s, and campaigned in fiction and non-fiction for a group of related causes: improved status for women (in education, marriage, divorce, child-rearing, job opportunities, and voting rights), anti-vivisection, pacificism, and international co-operation. She was a writer of high intellectual ability, and her characteristic tone is trenchant, satirical, and often bleakly comic.

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Textual Production Jane Hume Clapperton
This piece, part of the debate that followed Mona Caird 's famous or infamous August 1888 Westminster Review article, Marriage, was written in specific response to an article by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman entitled Marriage...
Textual Features Kathleen Caffyn
Critic Stephanie Forward has pointed out that at this date the colour yellow signified avant-garde and slightly dangerous fashion, as had been recognised in such literary works as Mona Caird 's The Yellow Drawing-Room and...
Literary responses Emma Frances Brooke
Recently Carolyn Christensen Nelson has connected EFB 's optimistic view of marriage at the conclusion of this novel with Mona Caird 's Marriage (her well-known Westminster Review article of August 1888). Caird writes: men and...
Friends, Associates Mathilde Blind
One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird (famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888).
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Leisure and Society Mathilde Blind
She and Mona Caird enjoyed going on long walks together in the countryside around Wendover near Oxford, of which Blind kept a record in her commonplace-book.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Occupation Anna Livia
She also this year became the director of the Feminist Press in London, a position she held until 1989.
Anna Livia,. “Anna Livia Julian Brawn: Curriculum Vitae”. University of California, Berkeley: Department of French.
(Reprints from the Press during these years included Mona Caird 's The Daughters of Danaus.)

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