Emily's Choice - An Australian Tale by Maud Jean Franc
No publication date by Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London but first written in 1867.
This book was presented to Lily Bache by Moggill Methodist Sunday School in 1933.
Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans (née Congreve) (1827 – 1886) was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc.
Matilda was the elder daughter of Dr Henry Congreve and his wife Elizabeth Ann, née Jacob of Peckham, England. The family moved to South Australia in 1852, started a school at Mount Barker and on 16 February 1860 Matilda married the Rev. Ephraim Evans, a Baptist minister, who died 6 April 1863. In 1860 Mrs Evans opened a school at Angaston which was still in existence in 1868. She wrote her first story, Marian; or the light of Some One's Home while she was at Mount Barker and it appears to have been immediately successful. The British Museum catalogue records an edition published at Bath in 1860, a second edition was published by John Darton and Company in 1861, and another edition published by Sampson Low appeared in the same year.
Evans had chosen as a pseudonym Maud Jean Franc, but in her later books variations in the spelling of both Maud and Jean appeared. Her second book Vermont Vale came out in 1866 and during the next 19 years 13 other volumes were published. She died of peritonitis in 1886.
Emily's Choice - An Australian Tale by Maud Jean Franc
No publication date by Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London but first written in 1867.
This book was presented to Lily Bache by Moggill Methodist Sunday School in 1933.
Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans (née Congreve) (1827 – 1886) was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc.
Matilda was the elder daughter of Dr Henry Congreve and his wife Elizabeth Ann, née Jacob of Peckham, England. The family moved to South Australia in 1852, started a school at Mount Barker and on 16 February 1860 Matilda married the Rev. Ephraim Evans, a Baptist minister, who died 6 April 1863. In 1860 Mrs Evans opened a school at Angaston which was still in existence in 1868. She wrote her first story, Marian; or the light of Some One's Home while she was at Mount Barker and it appears to have been immediately successful. The British Museum catalogue records an edition published at Bath in 1860, a second edition was published by John Darton and Company in 1861, and another edition published by Sampson Low appeared in the same year.
Evans had chosen as a pseudonym Maud Jean Franc, but in her later books variations in the spelling of both Maud and Jean appeared. Her second book Vermont Vale came out in 1866 and during the next 19 years 13 other volumes were published. She died of peritonitis in 1886.