Mrs Eaves adapts Baskerville for use in display contexts, such as headings and book blurbs, through the use of a low x-height and a range of unusual combined characters or ligatures.

As Baskerville was setting up his printing and type business, he hired Sarah Eaves as his live-in housekeeper; eventually, her husband Richard abandoned her and their five children, and Mrs Eaves became Baskerville's mistress and eventual helpmate with typesetting and printing.

Selection of the name Mrs Eaves honors one of the forgotten women in the history of typography.

Identifying characters, similar to Baskerville's types, are the lowercase g with its open lower counter and swashlike ear.

The overall stroke weight of Mrs Eaves is considerably heavier than most other revivals, countering the often anemic reproduction of smaller point sizes in other digital revivals of Baskerville, and restoring some of the feeling of letterpress printing's unpredictability.

Due to its relatively wide proportions, as compared with the original Baskerville, it’s useful for giving presence to small amounts of text such as poetry, or for elegant headlines and for use in print ads.

Radiohead's 2003 album Hail to the Thief prominently used Mrs Eaves in its related artwork.

Coldplay uses the font in their logo along with any other promotional artwork related to their 2015 album A Head Full Of Dreams.

mewithoutYou, a punk rock band from Philadelphia, use the font for every release, including their logo.