Ewelina Hańska Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac
Eveline MacLaren Eveline MacLaren Eveline MacLaren (November 1883-1955) became one of Scotland's two first female law graduates when she and Josephine Gordon Stuart both obtained an LLB degree from the Faculty of Law at Edinburgh Law School in 1909. The centenary of their achievement was marked in 2009 by the Law School in a programme of events titled "100 Years of Women in Law: An Edinburgh Centenary". MacLaren also obtained the Edinburgh Master of Arts degree in 1904. She did not become a lawyer, but was much involved in the legal practice of her father's law firm. She never married, and had