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

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

• The Influence of Mars (1900) short stories
• Old Clothes (1904) play[4]
• A Lady in Waiting (1905) fiction
• Fido (1907) play[4]
• The Whirligig (1908) play[4]
• My Lonely Soldier (1916) play[4]
• The Vanished Kitchen-Maid (6 March 1920) article in The Graphic

References

External links

• Play My Lonely Soldier at Great War Theatre website
• Dame Eva Isabella Henrietta Anstruther in 1930 at National Portrait Gallery

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