Author:Evelyn Jane Sharp

Evelyn Jane Sharp
(1869–1955)

British author and suffragist: a key figure in two major British women's suffrage societies. Many of her works were published in The Yellow Book; she was especially well known for her children's fiction. Pen name: Evelyn Sharp

Evelyn Jane Sharp

Works

  • At The Relton Arms (1895) : PG : IA
  • The Making of a Prig (1897) : PG : IA
  • The Making of a Schoolgirl (1897) IA (borrow only)
  • Wymps, and Other Fairy Tales (1897) Uni. of Florida
  • All the Way to Fairyland: Fairy stories (1898) : PG
  • The Other Side of the Sun: fairy stories (1900) : PG : IA : librivox
  • The Youngest Girl in the School (1901) : PG : IA
  • The Toughest Girl in the School (1901)
  • Round The World To Wympland (1902)
  • The Other Boy (1902)
  • The Children Who Ran Away (1903) hathitrust
  • Micky (1905)
  • Lessons (1905)
  • The Child's Christmas (1906)
  • Nicolette: A novel (1907) hathitrust
  • The Story of the Weathercock with Charles Robinson (illus) (1907) IA
  • The Hill that Fell Down (1909)
  • Rebel Women (1910) : PG : IA
  • The Victories Of Olivia, and Other Stories (1912)
  • The War of All the Ages (1915)
  • A Communion Of Sinners (1917)
  • Somewhere in Christendom (1919) hathitrust
  • John's Visit to the Farm (1920)
  • Who was Jane? A story for young people of all ages (1922)
  • Young James (1926)
  • Heather Ayrton (1926, biography)
  • The Loafer And The Loaf: An ... episode in one act (1926, play)
  • The London Child (1927)
  • Here We Go Round: the story of the dance (1928)
  • Daily Bread (1928)
  • The Child Grows Up (1929)
  • The African Child: an account of the International Conference on African Children, Geneva (1931)
  • An Unfinished Adventure (1933, autobiography)

[Works presumably by a different (later, American?) "Evelyn Sharp": A Parent's Guide to the New Mathematics (1964), A Parent's Guide to More New Math: Slide Rules and Peanut Butter (1966), Thinking is Child's Play (1969)]

Short works from periodicals

Works about Sharp

  • Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955, (2009) by Angela V. John.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1955, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 69 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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