Caird, Mona Alison (1858–1932)
Caird, Mona Alison (1858–1932)
British novelist and essayist. Name variations: Alice Mona Caird; Mrs. Mona Hector Caird; (pseudonym) G. Noel Hatton. Born 1858 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England; died Feb 4, 1932, in London, England; dau. of an inventor named Hector; m. A. Henryson-Caird, 1877.
Wrote essays on marriage, collected in The Morality of Marriage (1891), which linked inequality to marriage and brought criticism from conservatives; also a passionate anti-vivisectionist, wrote Legalized Torture and The Savagery of Vivisection (1894–95); novels include A Romance of the Moors (1891) and The Daughters of Danaus (1894).
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