Eva was the daughter of Wine Merchant and local historian Clarence Mason Dobell from Cheltenham, and the niece of the Victorian poet Sydney Dobell. Her full name was Eveline Jessie Dobell and she was born the youngest of three children on 30 January 1876 at the Grove, Charlton Kings in Gloucestershire, England.
She volunteered to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) as a nurse in World War I. Her experiences in the VAD prompted her to write poetry about, inter alia, wounded and maimed soldiers which has been well-thought of by many versed in the ways of poetry. She also took part in the morale-boosting work of writing to prisoners of war. She died on 3 September 1963 at the age of 87 years at which time her home address was Abbeyholme, Overton Road, Cheltenham.
Her mother was Emily Anne Duffield a native of Manchester, England.
Verse drama A Woodland Tale: A Phantasy. Book edited Margaret Sackville.
A Poet"s Return: Some Later Poems of Lady Margaret Sackville. Cheltenham: Burrow"s Press, 1940.
Anthologies South. Fowler Wright, educated
The County Series of Contemporary Number. VII. Gloucester: The Empire League, 1927. "The Roman Camp" and "The Faery Wood." Catherine West. Reilly, educated
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's and Verse of the First World War.
London: Virago Press, 1982. Vincent Sherry, educated The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War.
Cambridge: Cambridge Uttar Pradesh, 2005. "Pluck." Johnny Coppin.
The Gloucestershire Collection.
Red Sky, 1994. "Tom"s Long Post," set to music
