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Notes for Eva Channing bio:

Born 17 May 1854 (need citation)

May be buried at Mt. Auburn, Hibiscus Path (mother is buried in the plot)

She studied Sanskrit (see below)

Studied in Leipzig

https://books.google.com/books?id=Vp-2RZAPVRwC&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=eva+channing+william+dwight+whitney&source=bl&ots=KrjpKqTReT&sig=ACfU3U1RJ0ITt79HVgxrRswZ7oZGOZhV9A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjU9PzjzsXoAhUzlHIEHT3hBOsQ6AEwAnoECAYQKQ#v=onepage&q=eva%20channing%20william%20dwight%20whitney&f=false

First female member of the both the American Oriental Society and the American Philological Society

https://www.nantucketpreservation.org/date/2019/07/ (house described below)

Svargaloka | 5 Elbow Lane | c. 1860s, moved 1871

On August 5, 1871, The Inquirer & Mirror reported that “E.H. Alley has purchased a tract of land at Siasconset near the verge of the bank and has also purchased the house on the Charles C. Folger Farm, which he intends removing to ’Sconset, to make two cottage houses of it.” Svargaloka is the farmhouse that was found on Hawthorne Lane, just west of town, and moved to ’Sconset. Elijah H. Alley (1819-1888) was a clothing retailer from Lynn, Massachusetts, who married Mary Burdick (1820-1888) of Nantucket. They had no children, and in 1888 the property descended to Mary’s sister Susan. It would eventually pass to Susan’s daughter, Eva Channing (1854-1930), who with her mother appear to have been frequent visitors to the cottage during the time the Alley’s lived there. A student of Sanskrit, Eva is credited with naming the cottage Svargaloka, meaning “land of paradise.” Eva made improvements to the house, including the construction of a piazza that once graced the Elbow Lane elevation but was destroyed in a windstorm in 1914.

Current images of the house:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5-Elbow-Ln-Nantucket-MA-02554/56548408_zpid/

Legacy
The Age of Light is a debut historical novel by Whitney Scharer about Lee Miller's relationship with Man Ray. It was sold to Little, Brown and Company in September 2017 and is expected to be published in early 2019.