Person:Elizabeth Gibson (3)

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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV E page 9 EVANS, Elizabeth Edson (Gibson), author, was born in Newport, N.H., March 8, 1833; daughter of Dr. Willard Putnam and Lucia Field (Williams) Gibson. She began to write in prose and verse when very young. She was married [p.9] to Prof. Edward Paysen Evans of the University of Michigan in 1868. They removed 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).