Eveleen Laura Mason
US author (1838-1914)
Eveleen Laura Knaggs Mason (September 3, 1838 – September 7, 1914) was an American writer, suffragist, and clubwoman.
Early life and education
Knaggs was born in Boston, the daughter of Thomas Jackson Knaggs and Elizabeth Milner Knaggs.
Career
Mason taught school as a young woman, fostered children in her home, and worked to establish a travelers' aid program for young women new to Boston. She was a member of the Brookline Education Society, a vice president of the Moral Education Association of Massachusetts, and founder and president of the Queens of Home Club. She wrote fiction and non-fiction with utopian, feminist, political and spiritualist themes. Her work is sometimes counted with early American science fiction by women writers.
Mason gave the opening prayer at an 1880 National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Chicago, and she spoke at the 1884 meeting of the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Convention. "Miss Eveleen L. Mason, an attractive, refined-looking lady, made one of the best speeches of the morning", reported The Inter Ocean in 1880. "She has heard it objected to woman suffrage that woman was the helpmeet of man. She thought that was the very reason why she should take a part".
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