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Fowl
1877–1941
A witty voice behind The Tatler’s popular "Letters of Eve," this early 20th-century writer helped turn society gossip and wartime observation into something bright, sharp, and memorable. Writing under the pen name "Fowl," she is best known today for the playful Eve books created with illustrator Anne Harriet Fish.
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The First Book of Eve
by Fowl
About the author
Working under the pseudonym Fowl, Olivia Maitland-Davidson was a British writer and journalist active in the 1910s. She created "Letters of Eve" for The Tatler, a much-loved column that began in May 1914 and followed the fictional Evelyn Fitzhenry—"Eve"—through fashionable life and the changing mood of wartime Britain.
Her best-known books grew out of that collaboration with illustrator Anne Harriet Fish, who signed her work as Fish. Together they produced The First Book of Eve in 1916, with later Eve volumes following, blending light social comedy, stylish drawings, and a distinctly modern feminine point of view.
Maitland-Davidson’s work now offers more than period charm. It also gives readers a lively glimpse of how humor, fashion, and everyday resilience were woven into magazine culture during the First World War.