Evans, Harriet (d. 1809)

Harriet Evans was the first wife of George Eliot's father, Robert Evans. Born Harriet Poynton, she was the favored attendant of Lady Newdigate of the Arbury Hall estate, where the Evans family lived and worked. Harriet bore two children, Robert and Frances 'Fanny,' elder half-siblings to George Eliot. Harriet Evans died in childbirth in 1809.