Maud Jean Franc
Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans was an English-born Australian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jeanne Franc. Evans moved to South Australia with her family in 1852, and was soon left responsible for her three younger siblings after the death of her parents. She began working as a governess and eventually opened her own school in Mount Barker. In 1860 she married a Baptist preacher with whom she had two sons. After her husband's death in 1863, she again began operating her own school, before retiring in 1882 to dedicate herself to her writing and to her work as a Baptist deaconess.
