Evelyn Everett-Green

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London - 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. She wrote about 350 books: more than 200 under her own name, and others using the pen-names H. F. E. , Cecil Adair, E. Ward, or Evelyn Dare.

Her mother was the historian Mary Anne Everett Green and her father George Pycock Green was an artist; the family were Methodists. Mary Anne Everett Green, née Wood ( July 19, 1818 – November 1, 1895) was an English historian Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations During a year at Bedford College, London (1872 - 1873), Everett-Green wrote her first novel, and she continued to write while studying at the London Academy of Music. Bedford College was founded in London, England, in 1849 as a Higher education college for the Education of women. Her brother's death in 1876 meant the end of plans to go to India with him, and she occupied herself with good works, including Sunday School teaching and nursing.

In 1880 her first published work, Tom Tempest's Victory, appeared, and though it was soon followed by more, she found writing at home difficult, and town winters did not suit her health. In 1883 she went to live outside London with Catherine Mainwaring Sladen, and in the 1890s and early 1900s they had homes in Albury, Surrey. Albury is a village and Civil parish in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England, about four miles (6 km south-east of Guildford In 1911 they moved abroad and eventually settled in Madeira. History See also History of Madeira Pre-Portuguese times Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands the position of which with reference to the

During her time in Albury she wrote numerous historical novels, and fewer moral tales for the Religious Tract Society. The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799, was the original name of a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism and including literature Her novel about Joan of Arc, Called of Her Country (1903), later re-published as A Heroine of France, presents Joan as a feminine "Angelic Maid" in white armour whose inspiring adventures were undertaken in a dutiful spirit. Joan of Arc (c 1412 Joan asserted that she had visions from God that told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years'

Much of Everett-Green's fiction was aimed at girls, but she also wrote boys' adventure stories, like A Gordon Highlander (1901). After moving abroad she wrote romantic novels for adults, often using the pseudonym Cecil Adair.

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Works by Evelyn Everett-Green at Project Gutenberg
- Books available include:
- A Heroine of France
- In the Wars of the Roses
- The Secret Chamber at Chad

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Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction 1900-14: New Voices in the Age of Uncertainty, ed. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works Kemp, Mitchell, Trotter (OUP 1997)
Hilary Clare, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Penny Brown, Reinventing the Maid: images of Joan of Arc in French and English children's literature, in The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature ed. Ann Lawson Lucas (Praeger 2003)

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