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Evans, Henrietta Matilda Jane (1827 - 1886)

Born
7 August 1827
Peckham Park, Surrey, United Kingdom
Died
22 October 1886
Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation
Novelist, Teacher and Writer
Alternative Names
  • Evans, Matilda (Preferred)
  • Franc, Maud Jeanne (pen name)

Summary

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.

Sources used to compile this entry: Finnis, H. J., 'Evans, Matilda Jane (1827-1886)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian National University, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040147b.htm.

Published resources

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

Online Resources

See also

Barbara Lemon

Created: 29 September 2008, Last modified: 27 October 2008

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