Elizabeth Edson (Gibson) Evans, author, was born in Newport, New Hampshire on March 8, 1832. She was the daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam and Lucia Field (Williams) Gibson.
She began to write in prose and verse when she was very young. She was married to Prof. Edward Payson Evans of the University of Michigan in 1868. They moved to Munich, Bavaria, in 1870, and there both Mr. and Mrs. Evans engaged in literary work.
She published in America, besides contributions to periodicals:
The Abuse of Maternity (1875)
Laura, an American Girl, a novel (1884)
A History of Religions (1892)
and in London:
The Story of Kaspar Hauser (1892)
The Story of Louis XVII. of Fraace (1893)
Transplanted Manners, a novel (1895)
Confession, a novel (1895)
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Dönniges, A Modern Tragedy (1897).
-Information from: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV; page 9
Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans (1832 – 1911) Daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam Gibson and Lucia Field Williams and was married to Edward Payson Evans in 1868. She was a contributor to Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Nation, etc. Author of 9 books, including: A History of Religions, 1892; The Christ Myth (her last book), 1900.
-Wikipedia-
She began to write in prose and verse when she was very young. She was married to Prof. Edward Payson Evans of the University of Michigan in 1868. They moved to Munich, Bavaria, in 1870, and there both Mr. and Mrs. Evans engaged in literary work.
She published in America, besides contributions to periodicals:
The Abuse of Maternity (1875)
Laura, an American Girl, a novel (1884)
A History of Religions (1892)
and in London:
The Story of Kaspar Hauser (1892)
The Story of Louis XVII. of Fraace (1893)
Transplanted Manners, a novel (1895)
Confession, a novel (1895)
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Dönniges, A Modern Tragedy (1897).
-Information from: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV; page 9
Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans (1832 – 1911) Daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam Gibson and Lucia Field Williams and was married to Edward Payson Evans in 1868. She was a contributor to Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Nation, etc. Author of 9 books, including: A History of Religions, 1892; The Christ Myth (her last book), 1900.
-Wikipedia-
Elizabeth Edson (Gibson) Evans, author, was born in Newport, New Hampshire on March 8, 1832. She was the daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam and Lucia Field (Williams) Gibson.
She began to write in prose and verse when she was very young. She was married to Prof. Edward Payson Evans of the University of Michigan in 1868. They moved to Munich, Bavaria, in 1870, and there both Mr. and Mrs. Evans engaged in literary work.
She published in America, besides contributions to periodicals:
The Abuse of Maternity (1875)
Laura, an American Girl, a novel (1884)
A History of Religions (1892)
and in London:
The Story of Kaspar Hauser (1892)
The Story of Louis XVII. of Fraace (1893)
Transplanted Manners, a novel (1895)
Confession, a novel (1895)
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Dönniges, A Modern Tragedy (1897).
-Information from: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV; page 9
Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans (1832 – 1911) Daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam Gibson and Lucia Field Williams and was married to Edward Payson Evans in 1868. She was a contributor to Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Nation, etc. Author of 9 books, including: A History of Religions, 1892; The Christ Myth (her last book), 1900.
-Wikipedia-
She began to write in prose and verse when she was very young. She was married to Prof. Edward Payson Evans of the University of Michigan in 1868. They moved to Munich, Bavaria, in 1870, and there both Mr. and Mrs. Evans engaged in literary work.
She published in America, besides contributions to periodicals:
The Abuse of Maternity (1875)
Laura, an American Girl, a novel (1884)
A History of Religions (1892)
and in London:
The Story of Kaspar Hauser (1892)
The Story of Louis XVII. of Fraace (1893)
Transplanted Manners, a novel (1895)
Confession, a novel (1895)
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Dönniges, A Modern Tragedy (1897).
-Information from: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV; page 9
Elizabeth Edson Gibson Evans (1832 – 1911) Daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam Gibson and Lucia Field Williams and was married to Edward Payson Evans in 1868. She was a contributor to Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Nation, etc. Author of 9 books, including: A History of Religions, 1892; The Christ Myth (her last book), 1900.
-Wikipedia-
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