Description
Book SynopsisA biography of Evelyn Sharp, a writer and a incorrigible rebel. It draws on Evelyn Sharp's publications, as well as letter and diaries describing experiences such as famine relief in Soviet Russia and daily life in wartime Kensington for an elderly woman. It is suitable for those interested in children's and women's literature.
Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating account of a forgotten feminist. Evelyn Sharp was an 1890s 'new woman' who became a militant suffragette before 1914 and became renowned both as a journalist and children's writer. Angela V. John's lucid and scholarly biography brings her back into view, illuminating the social and political history of her era while skilfully weaving into the story Sharp's long, secret love affair with the Guardian journalist she eventually married - Henry Nevinson. Professor Shelia Rowbotham
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Evelyn Sharp’s Life
Introducing the Rebel Woman
1 From Evie to Becky Sharp
2 Writing for the young
3 Fellow traveller: meeting Henry Nevinson
4 Words in Deed: women’s suffrage
5 Working with war
6 The relief of peace: in Weimar Germany
7 Irish Rebels
8 Somewhere in Russia: fiction and famine
9 Still rebelling: women, writing and politics in the 1920s
10 The Child Grows Up: configuring childhood in the inter-war years
11 Defying time and the times
12 War and widowhood: Chipping Campden and Kensington
Appendix 1 Evelyn Sharp’s major publications
Appendix 2 The Cheap Holiday. A short story by Evelyn Sharp.
