About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES
wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
58
But the significant falling in love...
Family and Intimate relationships
Evelyn Sharp
ES
first met Henry W. Nevinson
when she collided with him on an ice-rink at Knightsbridge. It was in late 1903 that they became close.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press.
36, 38
Family and Intimate relationships
Evelyn Sharp
After a thirty-year friendship, the sixty-three-year-old ES
married Henry Nevinson
, a recent widower aged seventy-five, who was also a journalist and who had been her lover for thirty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press.
316
Family and Intimate relationships
Evelyn Sharp
Henry W. Nevinson
, journalist, writer, and husband of ES
, died at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire.
Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.