Frances Maule Bjorkman

Frances Maule Bjorkman (1879–1966) was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement.

[3] She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.

Frances Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska on October 24, 1879.

She married Swedish author Edwin Björkman in New York City in 1906.

[4] After separating from her husband Maule began a long-term, same-sex relationship with fellow Heterodoxy member Kathleen de Vere Taylor that lasted throughout the 1930s and 1940s.