Anne Evans

Anne Evans (4 June 1820 – 19 February 1870) was an English poet and composer. She has been described as "a witty poet and skilled composer of dance songs". Her Poems and Music were published posthumously in 1880.

Background Evans was in 1820, at Frimley, Surrey, near Sandhurst, the eldest daughter of Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854) and his wife, Anne Norman. Her father was a noted linguist and numismatist, who was a professor of classics and history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and her grandfather the Welsh-born mathematician and astronomer Lewis Evans (1755–1827). Of her brothers and sisters, Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), also wrote poetry.