A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Theatre
Edith Evans was born in London the daughter of Edward Evans a civil servant and his wife Caroline Ellen Foster. K. Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (both on stage and in the 1952 film) and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.

She also appeared in a number of films for which Edith Evans received three Academy Award nominations plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award. By contrast Edith Evans played a poverty-stricken old woman in one of her most acclaimed film roles in The Whisperers (1967).