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You can't imagine anyone describing a white presidential assistant--Evelyn Lincoln or Rose Mary Woods--this way.
Female until the 17th century, it became a surname and was then widely, but not exclusively used for boys, generally of the upper or professional classes: Evelyn Baring the banker; Evelyn Henderson, brother of a 1930s' British ambassador, and, most famously, Evelyn Waugh.
The even-handed, Continental use of Maria never caught on in Britain, but the dual Evelyn was already established, as was Leslie/Lesley . In America, Lee made no distinctions: Lee Radziwill, Remick, J. Cobb, and Harvey Oswald.
See March Comments at 27 (comment of Melinda Wiggins, Student Action With Farmworkers); March Comments at 78 (comment of Sister Evelyn Mattern, North Carolina Council of Churches); March Comments at 126 (comment of Shelley Latin, Virginia Farmworkers Legal Assistance Project); March Comments at 227-28 (comment of Melissa A. Pershing, Legal Services of North Carolina); March Testimony at 132-133 (testimony of Michael Carlin); March Testimony at 140 (testimony of Rob Williams, Florida Legal Services).
When one such officer inspected the cadets at a public school (Lancing) in 1919, the sixteen-year-old Evelyn Waugh helped to organize the dropping of rifles as a demonstration against the man's accent.