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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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.