Mona Caird (1854-1932)

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"We are governed not by armies, but by ideas."

Born: She was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, 1854.
Married: James Alexander Henryson-Caird, a farmer, 1877.
Career: Like Grand, Caird entered the political arena with articles which were collected in a volume entitled: The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Women in 1897.

Works Timeline:

• Whom Nature Leadeth (1883) novel
• One That Wins (1887) novel
• Marriage (1888) essay
• The Wing Of Azrael (1889) novel
• The Emancipation of the Family (1890) essay
• A Romance Of The Moors (1891) stories
• The Yellow Drawing-Room (1892) story
• A Defence of the So-Called Wild Women (1892) essay
• The Daughters Of Danaus (1894) novel
• The Sanctuary Of Mercy 1895) essay
• A Sentimental View Of Vivisection (1895) essay
• Beyond the Pale: An Appeal on Behalf of the Victims of Vivisection (1897) extended essay
• The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Women (1897) essays
• The Pathway Of The Gods (1898) novel
• The Ethics of Vivisection (1900) essay
• The Logicians: An episode in dialogue (1902) play
• Romantic Cities Of Provence (1906) travel
• Militant Tactics and Woman's Suffrage (1908) essay
• The Stones Of Sacrifice (1915) essay
• The Great Wave (1931) novel

THE SANCTUARY OF MERCY. by Mona Caird (short extract)

IN studying the relation of the human to the animal races, I have been greatly struck by the different spirit displayed by writers as regards this question--a question profound in its importance both to man and beast, but which, nevertheless, has scarcely yet risen into the realm of human speculation and morality. One seldom meets with any definite and fully thought-out statement on the matter: the disposition of the writer is displayed in chance utterances, passing allusions, which indicate the nature of the feeling rather than formulate an opinion'