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Dame Eva Anstruther DBE (25 January 1869  19 June 1935) was an English writer and poet.

Eva Anstruther, 1930
Eva Anstruther, 1930

Early life


She was born as Eva Isabella Henrietta Hanbury-Tracy, the eldest child of the 4th Lord Sudeley.[1][2]


Career


Anstruther wrote poems, newspaper columns, short stories, plays and several novels.

During the First World War, she was director of operations of the Camps Library, whose director was Sir Edward Ward. The Camps Library was a charitable organisation responsible for stocking libraries for troops and prisoners of war in France. Anstruther was able to use her contacts in the publishing industry to obtain remaindered books for the libraries.[3] For this service she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.[1][2]


Personal life


She married the M.P. Henry Torrens Anstruther in 1889. They had two children, Douglas and Joyce, who became a writer.[1][2]


Death


She died at her home in Chelsea from bronchial pneumonia on 19 June 1935, aged 66.[1][2]


Selected works



References


  1. "Dame Eva Anstruther obituary". The Times. London, England. 20 June 1935. p. 19.
  2. "Death of Dame Eva Anstruther". Dundee Courier. 21 June 1935. p. 3.
  3. King, Edmund G. C. (2013). ""Books Are More to Me Than Food": British Prisoners of War as Readers, 1914-1918". Book History. 16: 246–271. ISSN 1098-7371.
  4. Nicoll, Allardyce (1973). English drama, 1900-1930; the beginnings of the modern period. Cambridge [England]: University Press. p. 480. ISBN 0-521-08416-4. OCLC 588815.





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