Evans, Henrietta Matilda Jane (1827-1886)

Also known as
Congreve, Matilda JaneFranc, Maud Jeanne (1827-1886)
Evans, Matilda Jane (1827-1886)
Field of activity
Novelist, Teacher and Writer; Baptist lay leader; novelist; school owner; schoolteacher; short story writer; temperance advocate
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775080

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EVANS, MATILDA JANE (1827-1886), teacher and novelist under the pseudonym Maud Jeanne Franc, was born on 7 August 1827 at Peckham Park, Surrey, England, the elder of two surviving daughters of Henry Congreve, oilman, and his wife Elizabeth Ann, née Jacob. An unfortunate investment robbed her father of a large inheritance and in 1852 he sailed with his family for South Australia where two sons had already migrated in 1849; Matilda Jane's mother died at sea aged 49 and her father died by 'visitation of God' on 18 December 1852 at North Adelaide.

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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.

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  1. Beatrice Melton's Discipline
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1880]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  2. Evans, Matilda Jane (1827-1886)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Evans, Matilda Jane (1827-1886)
    Finnis, H. J.
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040147b.htm
  3. Into the Light
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1885]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  4. Vermont Vale, or, Home Pictures in Australia
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1866]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  5. Emily's Choice: An Australian Tale
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1875]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  6. Hall's Vineyard
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1875]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  7. South Australian Christmas Annual, 1881: Containing Tales
    Franc, Maud Jeanne, George E. Loyau et al
    [1881]
    Published: Scrymgour & Sons
  8. John's Wife
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1876]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  9. Little Mercy, or, For Better, For Worse
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1877]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  10. Marian, or, The Light of Someone's Home
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1866]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  11. Minnie's Mission: An Australian Temperance Tale
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1869]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  12. No Longer a Child
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1885]
    Published: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  13. Silken Cords and Iron Fetters: An Australian Tale
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1870]
    Published: Whaley, Austin & Co.
  14. Golden Gifts: An Australian Tale
    Franc, Maud Jeanne
    [1869]
    Published: Scandrett & Elliott
  15. All Her Labours: Third Women and Labour Conference, Adelaide
    Publications Collective, Women and Labour Conference
    [1984]
    Published: Hale & Iremonger
  16. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press

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