Evelyn Sharp

Abstract

She is a biggish woman, about five feet ten inches, with tremendous blue eyes which look right through you, a pale, unmade-up face, uncoloured lips. She is dressed as middle- or upper-class professional women do dress, quite expensively but rather uglily. She is really a tremendous and dominating character. She has worked with a great many Ministers… She comes from the planning side of things. She is rather like Beatrice Webb in her attitude to life, to the Left in the sense of wanting improvement and social justice quite passionately and yet a tremendous patrician and utterly contemptuous and arrogant, regarding local authorities as children which she has to examine and rebuke for their failures. She sees the ordinary human being as incapable of making a sensible decision.¹