Sir Henry Evelyn Wood

The apparently disastrous story of AS 's marriage remains untold. Her husband was a son of Sir Scudamore Steele, an army officer with the East India Company and said to have been a man of...

His relatives included John Page Wood , husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood . This pair were the parents of Anna Steele (another novelist), Katharine O'Shea (mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell

Before the age of twenty-one, ECW 's favourite son, Evelyn , won the Victoria Cross in India. He eventually became a Field Marshal.

ECW once rescued Evelyn while he was serving in the Crimean War. He was afflicted by typhoid fever when she insisted on visiting him in a hospital. Florence Nightingale , who ran the hospital, said...

AS 's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria

Anna dedicated her half of the volume to her brother Evelyn as a good man, brave soldier, truest friend! She reproduces here the contents of her earlier collection before going on to poems of...

AS is said to have written speeches on a regular basis for her brother Sir Evelyn Wood .