Background
Mason was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the daughter of physician Doctor Calvin Briggs and Rebecca Briggs.
Mason was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the daughter of physician Doctor Calvin Briggs and Rebecca Briggs.
She was educated at Bradford Academy in Bradford, Massachusetts, and began writing when quite young.
And The King"s Quest. Many of her poems became popular hymns in the Unitarian church. In 1852, her family moved to Fitchburg, Massachusetts.