Role in The Novels
After marriage, Evelyn mothers a large brood of children, and settles for a home life in contrast to Amelia and Radcliffe's annual travels to Egypt. Radcliffe, who admires Evelyn's talents as much as his brother's, considers it a shame for her to abandon her career.
But in later years, after the children are grown, she and Walter occasionally accompany the Emersons to Egypt to assist on archaeological digs.
The first instance of this is in The Hippopotamus Pool when she and Walter are going through marital troubles after their latest child dies in infancy. Already in Egypt, Radcliffe proposes that she and Walter be given distraction to help them through it. While in Egypt, Evelyn takes a particular shine to David Todros, a young Egyptian boy working for a professional forger, who is also an amazingly talented artist. After he runs away, Walter and Evelyn adopt him and take him back to England.
A few years later, when David and her daughter Lia fall in love, she and Walter are initially resistant to the idea of them marrying, but overcome their objections, again with Amelia's prodding.
Walter and Evelyn had six children: Radcliffe Junior ("Raddie"), Amelia Junior ("Lia"), Margaret, twin brothers Johnny (killed in the First World War) and Willy, and the above-mentioned baby that dies in infancy. Evelyn also miscarries at least once.
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