The Brontës

by Flora Masson

Book by Masson, Flora

92 pages, Unbound

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Flora Masson was born in Edinburgh. She was first of three daughters of professor David Masson and suffrage campaigner Emily Rosaline Orme. Her father was chair of the English department at the University of Edinburgh. Her younger brother was a scientist, David Orme Masson, and her younger sisters were Helen and suffragist and writer Rosaline Masson. Their aunt, Eliza Orme, was the first woman to earn a law degree in England.

Because of her parents' social connections, Masson met Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Coventry Patmore and James Barrie in her youth, and heard Charles Dickens read from Oliver Twist, among other acquaintances with notables of the nineteenth century.

Flora Masson trained as a nurse at St. Thomas's Hospital, London.