Evans, Henrietta Matilda Jane (1827 - 1886)

Matilda Evans arrived in Adelaide with her family in 1851. Her first novel, Marian, or the Light of Someone's Home was completed in 1861 while Evans was working as a governess near Mt Barker. After the death of her husband, Ephraim Evans, she opened a school at Angaston and resumed writing novels. Her works, which always had religious and temperance themes, included Vermont Vale: or Home Pictures in Australia (1866), Emily's Choice: An Australian Tale (1867), Minnie's Mission: an Australian Temperance Tale (1869) and Golden Gifts (1869). Evans opened Angaston House in North Adelaide in 1868. A collected edition of her fourteen novels was republished several times.

• Franc, Maud Jeanne (pen name)

Books

• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Marian, or, The Light of Someone's Home, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1866. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Vermont Vale, or, Home Pictures in Australia, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1866, 392 pp. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Minnie's Mission: An Australian Temperance Tale, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1869. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Golden Gifts: An Australian Tale, Scandrett & Elliott, Kapunda, SA, 1869. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Silken Cords and Iron Fetters: An Australian Tale, Whaley, Austin & Co., Gawler, SA, 1870. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Hall's Vineyard, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1875. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Emily's Choice: An Australian Tale, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1875. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, John's Wife, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1876. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Little Mercy, or, For Better, For Worse, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1877. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Beatrice Melton's Discipline, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1880. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, No Longer a Child, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1885. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, Into the Light, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1885. [ Details... ]
• Franc, Maud Jeanne, George E. Loyau et al, South Australian Christmas Annual, 1881: Containing Tales, Scrymgour & Sons, Adelaide, 1881. [ Details... ]

Conference Proceedings

• Publications Collective, Women and Labour Conference (eds), All Her Labours: Third Women and Labour Conference, Adelaide, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1984. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]