Evelyn Anthony (born 3 July 1928, London) is the pen name of Evelyn Ward Thomas, a British female writer.
In her youth during the Second World War she was educated largely at home, rather than at school. While she was evacuated to the West Country, Henry Christian Stephens, her father re-entered the Royal Navy to develop his Dome Trainer, one of the first inventions to cover anti aircraft gunnery training.
She started writing in 1949, following h...
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Evelyn Anthony (born 3 July 1928, London) is the pen name of Evelyn Ward Thomas, a British female writer.
In her youth during the Second World War she was educated largely at home, rather than at school. While she was evacuated to the West Country, Henry Christian Stephens, her father re-entered the Royal Navy to develop his Dome Trainer, one of the first inventions to cover anti aircraft gunnery training.
She started writing in 1949, following her marriage. Her pen name comes from Evelyn as a man's profile, as women were often not published during the years after the Second World War, and Saint Anthony, the Catholic patron of Lost Causes.
First writing short stories for periodicals, she gained fame and success with her well-researched historical novels, being especially noted for her original treatment of Anne Boleyn - a historical character dealt with by numerous other writers. Two of them became US Literary Guild Choices.
Her historical novels "Far Flies The Eagle" and "Valentina"...
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