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Mrs. Leo Everett

d. 1921

An American portrait painter who also turned her lived experience into reflective prose, she is best known for The Privilege of Pain, a 1920 book that explores suffering, endurance, and inner growth. Writing as Mrs. Leo Everett, she brought an artist’s eye and a deeply personal voice to the subject.

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The privilege of pain

The privilege of pain

by Mrs. Leo Everett

About the author

Caroline Kane Mills Everett, who published as Mrs. Leo Everett, was an American portrait painter and author born in 1867 and deceased in 1921. Sources about her identify her as a painter as well as a writer, and record that she was active in New York and Rhode Island, with part of her life also connected to France.

She is chiefly remembered for The Privilege of Pain, published in 1920. The book reflects on chronic pain and illness in a thoughtful, encouraging way, and later editions and library records have kept it available to new readers.

Some biographical records also note that she had a New York studio before her marriage to Alexander Leo Everett. While detailed personal information is limited in the sources I could confirm, the picture that emerges is of a creative woman who worked in both visual art and nonfiction, and whose writing grew out of serious experience rather than abstract theory.