Daughter of Dr. Cal­vin Briggs, Car­o­line mar­ried law­yer Charles Ma­son in Fitch­burg in 1853. Her works in­clude:

• Utterance: or Pri­vate Voic­es to the Pub­lic Heart, 1852
• The Lost Ring and Other Po­ems (Hough­ton Miff­lin & Com­pa­ny, pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in 1891)

• Emerson, p. 114
• Hanaford, p. 208

1. Changing Years, Eter­nal God, The
2. I Cannot Walk in Dark­ness Long
3. O God, I Thank Thee for Each Sight