13 Facts About Flora Masson

Flora Masson RRC was a Scottish nurse, suffragist, writer and editor.

Flora Masson was first of three daughters of professor David Masson and suffrage campaigner Emily Rosaline Orme.

Flora Masson's father was chair of the English department at the University of Edinburgh.

Flora Masson's younger brother was a scientist, David Orme Masson, and her younger sisters were Helen and suffragist and writer, Rosaline Masson.

Flora Masson trained as a nurse at St Thomas's Hospital, London.

Flora Masson worked at the Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the Eastern Fever Hospital, Homerton as a matron.

Flora Masson was a close friend and professional colleague of Florence Nightingale, who supported Flora Masson's promotion to Matron and in disputes with hospital administration and medical leaders around competency of staff; Nightingale arranged for practical support and influenced decisions made.

Flora Masson was active in the women's suffrage movement with her mother and sister, a policy that her father supported, speaking out when many men remained sceptical.

Flora Masson wrote about women's rights to vote in 'The Parliamentary Franchise for Women' published in the Ladies Edinburgh Journal in 1876.

Flora Masson joined the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society in 1881, which hosted discussions and lectures on various feminist topics, including suffrage, marriage, and religion.

Flora Masson edited two of her father's books, Memories of London in the 'Forties and Memories of Two Cities.

Flora Masson contributed to a book by her sister, I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson.

Flora Masson is buried in Grange Cemetery with her parents.