1. Alice Mona Alison Caird was an English novelist and essayist known for feminist writings, which were controversial when they were published.
11 Facts About Mona Caird
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Mona Caird advocated for animal rights and civil liberties, and contributed to advancing the interests of the New Woman in the public sphere.
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Mona Caird's parents were married on 21 June 1853 in St Leonards, her father being based in Melbourne and her mother Matilda the eldest daughter of a prominent citizen.
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Mona Caird wrote stories and plays from early childhood that reveal a proficiency in French and German as well as English.
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Mona Caird's husband farmed some 1700 acres of estates in Cassencary, Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
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Mona Caird's husband adopted the surname Henryson-Caird in 1897; he died in 1921.
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Mona Caird died on 4 February 1932 in Hampstead at the age of 77.
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Active in the women's suffrage movement from her early twenties, Mona Caird joined the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1878 and later the Women's Franchise League, the Women's Emancipation Union, and the London Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Mona Caird was a member of the Theosophical Society from 1904 to 1909.
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Mona Caird 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.
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Mona Caird wrote seven novels, several short stories, various essays and a travel book:.