Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
| Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson | |
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| Born | January 29, 1858 Madison, New Jersey |
| Died | 1942 |
| Occupation | Novelist, Journalist |
| Nationality | United States |
Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (January 29, 1858 – July 23, 1942) was an American author. He used the pseudonym Xavier Mayne.[1]
Biography
Edward Prime Stevenson was born on January 29, 1858 in Madison, New Jersey.[1] His father, Paul E. Stevenson, was a Presbyterian minister and a school principal; his mother Cornelia came from the Prime family of distinguished literary and academic figures.[1]
After studying law, Stevenson became a writer and a journalist.[1] In 1901, he moved to Europe, living in Florence and Lausanne, where he died of a heart attack in 1942.
In 1896 Stevenson published The Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Robert Antrobus that was supposedly written in 1735. However, it is believed that he was the author.
In 1906, under the pseudonym Xavier Mayne, Stevenson published the homosexually themed novel Imre: A Memorandum, and in 1908 the sexology study The Intersexes[1] a defense of homosexuality from a scientific, legal, historical, and personal perspective.
Quotes
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"Between a protozoan and the most perfect development of the mammalia, we trace a succession of dependent intersteps...A trilobite is at one end of Nature's workshop: a Spinoza, a Shakespeare, a Beethoven is at the other... gone on insisting that each specimen of sex in humanity must... follow out two programmes only, or else be thought amiss, imperfect, and degenerate [?] Why have we set up masculinity and femininity as processes that have not perfectly logical and respectable inter-steps?".
— Xavier Mayne, History of Similisexualism[2]
Bibliography
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Bullough, Vern L. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context, Haworth Press Inc, 2003, pp. 35–36.
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- Works by Edward Prime-Stevenson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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- Left to Themselves: Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald (Scanned copy of the novel)
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- 1858 births
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- 20th-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- Gay writers
- LGBT writers from the United States
- LGBT people from New Jersey
- People from Madison, New Jersey
- Novelists from New Jersey
- LGBT novelists
- 20th-century American male writers
