ABSTRACT
At the Mercy Tiberius is a little known work in the Evans canon, and even less known in the domestic novel genre, it is important in its articulation and subversion of gender ideology, especially in regard to intellectualism and women. Evans created a main character, Beryl, through which she reinforced societal norms about gender expectations, and at the same time undermined them. Women have had to pay a steep price indeed at their altars of sacrifice. Altars of Sacrifice are the subtitle to Macaria. Evans subtitles are significant; they are as telling as Evans subversive subtext. The disparity between ideology and practice is noticeable in the opening lines of Evans seventh novel, when the mother addresses Beryl as being obstinate and ungrateful. Evans thriller was popular enough even in 1920 to have been made into a horror film directed by Fred LeRoy Granville, distributed in the United States and the United Kingdom.
