Frances Maule Bjorkman
Frances Maule Bjorkman (1879–1966) was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.[1][2] She was a member of the Heterodoxy women's group.[3] She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.
Biography
[edit]Frances Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska on October 24, 1879. She attended Notre Dame of Maryland University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She married Swedish author Edwin Björkman in New York City in 1906. She was a Socialist active in the feminist movement.[4] After separating from her husband Maule began a long-term, same-sex relationship with fellow Heterodoxy member Kathleen de Vere Taylor that lasted throughout the 1930s and 1940s. They lived together first in Manhattan and then in Woodstock, New York.[5][6] After Taylor's death in 1949 Maule inherited the house and lived there until her own death in 1966.[7]
Writings
[edit]- Home and school visitors (1909)
- The cure for two million sick: The discovery of the hookworm disease (1909) with Charles Wardell Stiles
- Tests of Woman Suffrage States in The New York Times on June 3, 1912
- Woman suffrage: history, arguments and results (1913)
References
[edit]- ^ "35 Delegates to Washington Convention Settling Down to Real Business. Plan to Raise Funds for National Body by Per Capita Tax of State Association Members. ... Eleanor Byrnes, and Frances Maule BJorkman, reported ..." The New York Times. December 2, 1913. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
The fifty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association got down to business to-day with three well-attended sessions in the auditorium of the new Masonic Temple.
- ^ Douglas Clayton (1994). Floyd Dell: the life and times of an American rebel. ISBN 1-56663-059-2.
Frances Maule Bjorkman, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote Dell while the series was running in the Friday Literary Review during ...
- ^ Schwarz, Judith (1986). Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940 (Rev. ed.). Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers. p. 123. ISBN 0-934678-08-1.
- ^ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, American Commonwealth Company, p. 102
- ^ West 30th Street, New York City, 1940 US Census
- ^ "Ulster County, NY - SearchIQS". www.searchiqs.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ^ "Ulster County, NY - SearchIQS". www.searchiqs.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
