Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anne Evans
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Standard Name: Evans, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Evans
AE
was a witty poet and skilled composer of dance songs in the mid to late nineteenth century; she also wrote letters and epigrams. She is known for one posthumously published collection of verses and music.
ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
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Timeline
1880: Ten years after the author's death, Anne...
Women writers item
1880
Ten years after the author's death, Anne Evans
: Poems and Music appeared with a memorialpreface by her friend Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
Texts
Evans, Anne. Anne Evans: Poems and Music. C. Kegan Paul, 1880.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.