Evelyn Ward Everett-Green was an English novelist who started with improving, pious stories for children, moved on to historical fiction for older girls, and then turned to adult romantic fiction.
16 Facts About Evelyn Everett-Green
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Evelyn Everett-Green's mother was a historian, Mary Anne Everett Green, and her father, George Pycock Green, a portrait and landscape painter.
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Evelyn Everett-Green was the second of the family's three surviving daughters and had an older brother.
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Evelyn Everett-Green was baptised at Great Queen Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on 22 February 1857 as Eveline, but changed her name to Evelyn in later life.
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From earliest childhood, Evelyn invented stories to tell her sisters.
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Evelyn Everett-Green was educated at home until the age of 12, then at Gower Street Preparatory School, where she wrote a historical tale about Lady Jane Grey.
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Evelyn Everett-Green continued to write while studying at the London Academy of Music.
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Evelyn Everett-Green worked as a nurse in a London hospital for two years.
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Evelyn Everett-Green occupied herself with good works, including Sunday School teaching and nursing, and later hospital nursing.
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Evelyn Everett-Green soon turned to novels for slightly older girls, the genre she is best remembered for.
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Evelyn Everett-Green occasionally collaborated with fellow authors Louisa Bedford and Emma and Beatrice Marshall.
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Evelyn Everett-Green's works were some of the most popular of her generation.
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Evelyn Everett-Green was one of the bestselling authors with her publisher, Stanley Paul.
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Evelyn Everett-Green returned to England each year to visit her sister Gertrude and do business with her publishers.
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Evelyn Everett-Green became an active member of the Anglican community in Madeira and was buried in the British Cemetery.
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Evelyn Everett-Green depicts in her fictional mothers and wives greater shrewdness and cleverness than her male counterparts did.