In 1901, Evelyn was listed on the Census as a ‘bookbinder’. She
married Hubert Stuart Moore who was also a barrister in 1907. They travelled extensively together.
Evelyn wrote and published a large number of books and was
widely respected as an expert on theology.
Her WW1 Poetry Collection was “Theophanies A Book of Verses”, which was
published by Dent in 1916, and her poems were published in nine First World War
Poetry Anthologies. Read some of Evelyn’s
WW1 poetry here: https://archive.org/details/theophaniesbooko00unde
Evelyn lived through the Blitz on London in 1940, following
which her health deteriorated. She died
on 15th June 1941 and is buried in the Churchyard Extension at
St-John-in-Hampstead.
You can explore the relationship between Evelyn Underhill
and another WW1 Female Poet, May Sinclair, in a new short article, 'Plunging
into Reality'. Describing the relationship
and correspondence between Evelyn Underhill and May Sinclair the article has
just been published on the Sinclair Society website - https://maysinclairsociety.com/evelyn-underhill-may-sinclair/
The author, Alice Theobald, is an outstanding undergraduate
student at the University of Oxford and has been researching modernist
mysticism for her disertation.
