author
Evelyn Sharp
1869–1955
Known for graceful fiction and fearless activism, this English writer moved from popular children’s books and stories to a public life shaped by the women’s suffrage movement. Her work and career show how literary talent and political conviction could grow side by side.
6 Audiobooks
The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories
by Evelyn Sharp
All the Way to Fairyland: Fairy Stories
by Evelyn Sharp
At the Relton Arms
by Evelyn Sharp
The Youngest Girl in the School
by Evelyn Sharp
The Making of a Prig
by Evelyn Sharp
Rebel women
by Evelyn Sharp
About the author
Born in 1869, Evelyn Sharp was an English writer, journalist, and suffragist. Reliable sources identify her as a well-established author as well as an important figure in British women’s suffrage organizations, including the Women’s Social and Political Union and the United Suffragists. She also edited Votes for Women during the First World War.
Sharp wrote fiction for both adults and younger readers, and she published in major literary venues of her time, including The Yellow Book. That combination of literary work and public activism gives her a distinctive place in late Victorian and early twentieth-century writing.
She later became Evelyn Jane Nevinson after her marriage, but she is still best known by the name Evelyn Sharp. She died in 1955, remembered both for her writing and for her determined role in the fight for women’s political rights.