Mason, Eveleen Laura
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1838-1914) US author whose Utopia, Hiero-Salem: The Vision of Peace [for full title see Checklist below] (1889), presents spiritualist doctrines within an sf frame: the eponymous communitarian settlement in Wisconsin is inhabited by the "dualized", human beings who have shed all male or female characteristics (see Feminism; Gender). Mason's later works – most vividly An Episode in the Doings of the Dualized (1898) – promulgate the wisdom of this androgyny. [JC]
Eveleen Laura Knaggs Mason
born Boston, Massachusetts: 3 September 1838
died Brookline, Massachusetts: 7 September 1914
works (selected)
- Hiero-Salem: The Vision of Peace: A Fiction Founded on Ideals which are Grounded in THE REAL, that is Greater than the Greatest of All Human Great Ideals (Boston, Massachusetts: J G Cupples, 1889) [hb/nonpictorial]
- An Episode in the Doings of the Dualized (Brookline, Massachusetts: Press of Fish and Libby, 1898) [hb/]
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