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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Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Müller
The article begins with a favourable reference to G. Noel Hatton 's Whom Nature Leadeth, which Müller finds to illustrate with precision the inequitable nature of marriage in its present state. Although the husband...
Friends, Associates F. Mabel Robinson
FMR shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent , Robert Browning , William Morris , and Oscar Wilde
Intertextuality and Influence Flora Annie Steel
FAS brackets her extremely touching story between two overt comparisons of Indian with British culture, not to the latter's advantage. No matter how barbarous the marriage customs of India, FAS writes that Uma confronts...
politics Annie S. Swan
A great event of the literary year at this time was the Women Writers' Dinner at the Trocadero restaurant, an idea first conceived by Honor Morten . ASS mentioned in her autobiographical account that the...
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
In LondonKT met the politician William Gladstone (a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell .
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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On another occasion, she attended a garden-party given by feminist novelist...
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird , E. Nesbit , Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Alice Meynell . She was also a friend of William Sharp , Austin Dobson

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