Evelyn Everett-Green
Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (born November 17, 1856 in London , † April 23, 1932 in Funchal , Madeira , Portugal) was a British novelist who began her writing career with uplifting and pious children's stories. She moved on to historical poetry for older girls, then romantic stories for adults. Of her approximately 350 books, more than 200 were published under her own name, the others under the pseudonyms HFE , Cecil Adair , E. Ward , and Evelyn Dare .
Early life and work
Everett-Green's mother was the historian Mary Anne Everett Green and her father was the artist George Pycock Green. The family was of the Methodist Church .
Everett-Green wrote her first novel during a year-long stay at Bedford College (London, 1872–1873) and continued writing while studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . Her brother's death in 1876 put an end to her plans to go to India with him , and she turned to charitable activities such as Sunday school , teaching, and caring for.
Later life and work
Her first publication, Tom Tempest's Victory , appeared in 1880 . Although other works followed, she found it difficult to write at home and the city winters were bad for her health. In 1883 she left London to live with Catherine Mainwaring Sladen and lived in Albury in the 1890s and early 1900s . In 1911 they left England and settled in Madeira . She became an active member of the English community and was buried in the English cemetery. There is a commemorative plaque on the inner wall of the Holy Trinity Church (the English Church) in Funchal.
During her time in Albury, she wrote numerous historical novels and some moral stories for the Religious Tract Society . Her novel about Johanna von Orleans , Called of Her Country (1903), later republished as A Heroine of France , presents Johanna as a feminine "Angelic Maid" in white armor whose inspiring adventures took place in a dutiful spirit.
Much of Everett-Green's work was aimed at girls, but adventure stories for boys such as A Gordon Highlander (1901) have also been made. After emigrating, she wrote romance novels for adults, often under the pseudonym Cecil Adair .
literature
- Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction 1900-14: New Voices in the Age of Uncertainty , ed.Kemp, Mitchell, Trotter (OUP 1997)
- Hilary Clare, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Penny Brown, Reinventing the Maid: images of Joan of Arc in French and English children's literature , in The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature ed. Ann Lawson Lucas (Praeger 2003)
further reading
- Kimberley Reynolds, Girls Only ?: gender and popular children's fiction in Britain, 1880-1910 (Harvester Wheatsheaf 1990)
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: images of French and Italian translations of Drifted ashore or A Child without a Name )
Web links
- Works by Evelyn Everett-Green in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
- Works by Evelyn Ward Everett-Green ( archive.org )
- A Heroine of France
- In the Wars of the Roses
- True Stories of Girl Heroines
- The Secret Chamber at Chad
Individual evidence
- ^ British Cemetery and Holy Trinity Church archives, Funchal, Madeira
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Everett-Green, Evelyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Everett-Green, Evelyn Ward (full name); E., HF; Adair, Cecil; Ward, E .; Dare, Evelyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romancière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1932 |
| Place of death | Funchal , Madeira , Portugal |