b. 4 June 1820. d. 19 February 1870. Nationality: English.
Poet and composer. Daughter of writer Arthur Benoni Evans. Born in Sandhurst, Berkshire.
Unmarried. Lived in Kensington, London, after her father’s death in 1854, and suffered
serious ill health from 1867. Works collected posthumously in *Anne Evans: Poems and
Music* (1880), edited with a memoir by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Biographical information:
“Arthur Benoni Evans,” *ODNB*, Reilly, *Mid-Victorian Poetry*, p. 154. (JS, AC, CC)