Queer Places:
Nash Mills, Chambersbury Ln, Hemel Hempstead HP3 8BB
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
Thousand Acres, Bournstream, Wotton-under-Edge GL12 7DY, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL
Dame Joan Evans DBE FSA (22 June 1893 – 14 July 1977)[1]
was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art, especially Early
Modern and medieval jewellery. Her notable collection was bequeathed to the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[2]
Eleanor Jourdain was in Rome in
1912 with the family of Joan Evans, and Evans remained loyal to Jourdain
thereafter. She died of a sudden heart attack in 1924 after being forced to
resign her post at St Hugh's College over an administrative decision, leaving
Evans as her residuary legatee.
Joan Evans was born at Nash Mills, Apsley, Hertfordshire, the daughter of
antiquarian and businessman Sir John Evans and his third wife, Maria
Millington Lathbury (1856–1944). She was half-sister to Sir Arthur Evans,
excavator of Knossos and discoverer of Minoan civilisation. Sir Arthur was
forty two years her senior: he caused huge hilarity at an antiquarian
conference of learned and erudite gentlemen when he brought in a four-year-old
Joan to be "shown off".
[2]
Evans was educated privately before going up to St Hugh's College, Oxford
to read Archaeology. She graduated in 1916 as
M.A. In 1930 she was awarded a
D.Litt.[2]
The
Royal Institution of Great Britain's records suggest that Evans was the
first woman to give a Friday Evening Discourse at the Institution: this was on
8 June 1923, the title being 'Jewels of the Renaissance'.
In 1950, Evans's book Cluniac Art of the
Romanesque Period, which concerned art and sculptures made by the
monks of the abbey at
Cluny in
eastern France, was published by
Cambridge University Press.
A
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, she published the
Society's official history in 1956, and served as its first woman President
from 1959–64.
Evans lived at Thousand Acres, Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, from
1939 until her death in 1977 at the age of 84.[2]
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