Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked

LibriVox recording of Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by Kelly S. Taylor Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female friend of the young, naïve heroine of the novel and those of the feckless adventurer who decides that he must seduce the beautiful Evelyn. The author, actress/novelist/playwright Anna Cora Mowatt, was a fan of the works of Fredericka Bremer (early feminist author, sometimes called the “Swedish Jane Austen”). This narrative is heavily influence