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Evelyn Sharp

British suffragist

Lived
1869–1955

Updated September 2026

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About Evelyn Sharp

Evelyn Jane Nevinson, better known as Evelyn Sharp, was a pacifist and writer who was a key figure in two major British women's suffrage societies, the militant Women's Social and Political Union and the United Suffragists. She helped found the latter and became editor of Votes for Women during the First World War. She was twice imprisoned and became a tax resister. An established author who had published in The Yellow Book, she was especially well known for her children's fiction.

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