Evelyn's Husband

Evelyn's Husband is a novel published by the University of Mississippi in 2005 from an unpublished manuscript by African American author Charles W. Chesnutt which was edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan Van Schaik. In addition to being an author, Chesnutt was an educator, lawyer and political activist who was involved in the early works of the NAACP. Few details about writing of the work are known, other than a rejection letter from McClure Phillips in 1903. The book portrays a love triangle of white high-society in early 19th century Boston. His writing straddles both the local color and literary realism schools of genre in American writing.