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When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out, although that did not happen.

Instead, she respectably attended church for years and continued to keep house for him until his death in 1849, when she was 30.

Five days after her father's funeral, she travelled to Switzerland with the Brays.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

Her stay is recorded by a plaque on the building.

She read avidly and took long walks amongst a natural environment that inspired her greatly.

François painted a portrait of her.