lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.

Move to Coventry

In 1836, her mother died and Evans (then sixteen) returned home to act as housekeeper, though she continued to correspond with her tutor Maria Lewis. When she was twenty-one, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry. The closeness to Coventry

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