Evelyn Sharp
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Standard Name: Sharp, Evelyn
Birth Name: Evelyn Jane Sharp
Married Name: Evelyn Jane Nevinson
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, whose career occupied the end of the nineteenth century and the first several decades of the twentieth, wrote books for children, journalism, polemic (on behalf of suffragist, internationalist, pacifist, and other movements), novels, travel books, biography, and studies of education, poverty, and other social issues. Her output for children alone amounted to more than twenty books as well as stories counted in the hundreds. Important in this field, and as a suffragist activist and publicist, and with a high professional reputation as a journalist, she made less impression as a novelist (although her fiction is original and inventive). She was later forgotten more completely than almost any of her contemporaries of equal stature.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Maude Royden | MR
always regretted not having any children of her own. But in 1918 she adopted a daughter: Helen, a six-month-old war baby. From 1920 to 1924 or 1925, she also fostered another child, Friedrich... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | In the mid-1890s, CM
attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland
, editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp
, Netta Syrett
, Max Beerbohm
, Kenneth Grahame |
Friends, Associates | Ella D'Arcy | Lane
and Harland
were centres of literary social life in London. EDA
had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp
, and Constance Smedley
(who found her entirely sincere... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names... |
Friends, Associates | Beatrice Harraden | Apart from Eliza Lynn Linton
, her close literary friends included Evelyn Glover
, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
, Evelyn Sharp
, and Flora Annie Steel
(with whom she corresponded). |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 214 |
Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | Prevented by her eyesight from pursuing a career in art, she turned to writing, setting out with stories for magazines. Her low output has been attributed to her being indolent or a procrastinator or both.... |
Occupation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | After the war, in 1919, GHS
pursued regular journalistic work as well as her own writing. For the socialist Weekly Herald she worked at the invitation of W. N. Ewer
, combing European newspapers in... |
politics | Henrietta Müller | Having become a householder (at 58 Cadogan Place in south-west London) for the first time the year before, Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe. 5932 (11 March 1884): 2 |
politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
politics | Cicely Hamilton | Theatre manager Lena Ashwell
, actress Lillah McCarthy
, novelist Flora Annie Steel
, and journalist Evelyn Sharp
were among the many who withheld their taxes. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990. 104-5 |
politics | Maude Royden | MR
supported the Women's Tax Resistance League
, established in 1909, which organized suffragists who refused to pay taxes without representation. (Those who wrote later about being pursued for unpaid taxes included Flora Annie Steel |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Its actual birthday coincided with the first Russian Revolution Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 78-9 |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | The Women's Tax Resistance League
had been founded on 22 October 1909. Flora Annie Steel
was another who had goods distrained at about this time, as Evelyn Sharp
had later. In an article in Votes... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | HM
joined forces with Eliza Lynn Linton
, Marie Leighton
, Annie S. Swan
, Evelyn Sharp
, and Douglas B. Sladen
to contribute to The Idler's Club an essay entitled Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore? Mathers, Helen, Eliza Lynn Linton, Marie Leighton, Annie S. Swan, Evelyn Sharp, and Douglas B. Sladen. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, No. 6, pp. 907 -14. 912-13 |
Timeline
1889
Andrew Lang
and his wife Leonora
published the first of their series of fairy volumes: The Blue Fairy Book. Other colours followed.
June 1908
10 December 1908
The inaugural meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League
was held at the Criterion Restaurant in London.
28 March 1912
The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons
vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
October 1914
The British War Office
and Home Office
combined to halt the payment of the separation allowance due to soldiers' wives during their husbands' absence at war, if the women were deemed Unworthy.
After February 1917
Supporters of the Russian Revolution including Evelyn Sharp
founded the 1917 Club
to provide a venue for freely discussing the revolution without fear of attracting attention under the Defence of the Realm Act or Dora.
16 August 1921
The newly elected (second) Dail Eireann
or Irish lower house convened for the first time.
May 1922
Madeline Linford
launched the Manchester Guardianwomen's page, which she produced on her own, with no editorial assistant. It was temporarily suspended during the Second World War.
25 February 1934
Hunger marchers from the north of England arrived in Hyde Park, all very quiet but determined, confounding police warnings of anticipated violence.
October 1955
Evelyn Adelaide Sharp
(later a baroness; not to be confused with suffragist and writer Evelyn Sharp
) was named head of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
, becoming the first woman Permanent Secretary...