Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
Born(1868-07-23)July 23, 1868
Madison, New Jersey
Died1942
Lausanne, Switzerland
OccupationNovelist, Journalist
NationalityAmerican

Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (January 29, 1858 – July 23, 1942) was an American writer. He used the pseudonym Xavier Mayne.[1]

Biography

Edward Prime Stevenson was born on July 23, 1868 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 decided to become 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 a sexology study, The Intersexes,[1] a defense of homosexuality from a scientific, legal, historical, and personal perspective.

Quotes

"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

  • Prime-Stevenson, Edward; Sons, Charles Scribner's; Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (1887), White cockades : an incident of the "forty-five", Charles Scribner's Sons, OCLC 2163459
  • Prime-Stevenson, Edward (1891), Left to themselves: being the ordeal of Philip and Gerald , New York, Hunt & Eaton, OCLC 9777119
  • Prime-Stevenson, Edward (1906), Imre: A Memorandum, The English Book-Press
  • Prime-Stevenson, Edward Irenaeus (1908), The intersexes : a history of similisexualism as a problem in social life 
  • Prime-Stevenson, Edward (1913), Her enemy, some friends and other personages, stories and studies mostly of human hearts, G. & R. Obsner, OCLC 458170986

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bullough, Vern L. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context, Haworth Press Inc, 2003, pp. 35–36.
  2. ↑ Haggerty, George (2000). Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland Publishing, Inc. pp. 298–299. ISBN 9780815318804.
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