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Caroline Atwater Mason (July 10, 1853 – May 2, 1939) was an American novelist and travel writer.

Life

Caroline Atwater was born on July 10, 1853, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Mary Weaver and Stephen Atwater.[1] She was educated at the Friends Boarding School in Providence and studied in Germany for one year.[1] On May 29, 1877, she married John H. Mason, a clergyman who taught at Rochester Theological Seminary.[1]

She conducted research at the British Museum Reading Room and the Royal Library of the Netherlands.[1]

Mason opposed suffrage for women and was a member of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.[1]

She died on May 2, 1939, in Danvers, Massachusetts.[2]

Work

A Lily of France (1901), described as Mason's "best known story",[3] is a historical novel about Charlotte of Bourbon and William the Silent set largely in a 16th-century convent.[3] A review in the Chicago Tribune described it as a "sweet love story" with themes of religious liberty.[4] Holt of Heathfield (1904) is "a quiet recital of a young minister's life in a factory town".[5]

The Binding of the Strong (1909) is a love story based the romance of a woman of the last name Davis (whose first name is apparently lost to history) and John Milton.[6][7] The Spell of Italy (1910) is a lightly fictionalized account of travels throughout Italy.[8] The Spell of France (1912) is a similar travel narrative about France.[9]

Publications

  • A Wind Flower[4]
  • The Quiet King[4]
  • A Minister of the World (1895)[4][10]
  • A Minister of Carthage (1899)[10]
  • A Lily of France (1901)[4]
  • Holt of Heathfield (1904)[5]
  • The Binding of the Strong (1909)[6]
  • The Spell of Italy (1910)[8]
  • The Spell of France (1912)[9]
  • Royton Manor (1928)[11]
  • Challenged (1931)[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Leonard, John W., ed. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. pp. 546–547. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "Mrs. John H. Mason, Novelist, Traveler; Clergyman's Widow Also Wrote on Religion—Dies in Danvers". The New York Times. May 4, 1939. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Historical and Religious Themes Favored by Author". Sioux City Journal. December 18, 1932. p. 6.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Among the New Books". Chicago Tribune. September 11, 1901. p. 16.
  5. ^ a b "Holt of Heathfield". The Minneapolis Tribune. January 22, 1904. p. 4.
  6. ^ a b "John Milton and Miss Davis". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. January 31, 1909. sec. 2, p. 3.
  7. ^ Bradford, Richard (June 21, 2021). The Life of the Author: John Milton. Wiley. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-119-62156-0.
  8. ^ a b "Bookshelf and Inglenook". Los Angeles Herald. April 17, 1910. p. 50.
  9. ^ a b "Old France". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 4, 1912. p. 6.
  10. ^ a b Morey, Ann-Janine (1992). Religion and Sexuality in American Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 251–252. ISBN 0-521-41676-0. OCLC 25026073.
  11. ^ "Appealing New Novel by Miss Caroline A. Mason". The Boston Globe. December 1, 1928. p. 4.

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