Evadne Price was born on 28 August 1888 in at Sea betwen Sussex, England and Sydney, Australia, to English parents. She was educated in New South Wale, Belgium, and England. She first worked as an actress in London, and then turned to journalism. She wrote a column for the Sunday Chronicle and other newspapers. She married C. A. Fletcher, who died, later she married the also writer Kenneth Andrew Attiwill in 1929.
She wrote children's, romance and other fictions, she also used the pseudonym: Helen Zenna Smith. She was a vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Evadne died on 17 April 1985 in Sydney, Australia. She has an unfinished autobiography which was to have been named Mother Painted Nude.
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