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


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Prime-Stevenson (also known as Edward Stevenson, Edward Prime
Stevenson, and E. Irenaeus Prime Stevenson) was born in 1858 in
Madison, New Jersey, the  youngest of five children born to Paul E.
Stevenson and Cornelia Prime. His  father was a Presbyterian minister
and a school principal; his mother came from a distinguished literary
and academic figures.

After studying law, Stevenson decided to become a writer and a
journalist. During the 1880s, he began a career as a critic in New
York City for 'Harper's Weekly', a political magazine, and as book
reviewer and music critic for the weekly 'Independent'. 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 Prime-Stevenson 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', a
defense of homosexuality from a scientific, legal, historical, and
personal perspective.


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In 1901, he moved to Europe, living in Florence and Lausanne. He died
in Lausanne of a heart attack in 1942, aged 84.


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** [https://archive.org/details/LeftToThemselves 'Left to Themselves:
Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald' (scanned copy of the novel)]


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