Record ID:
36026266 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18880828
  • Merewether, New South Wales
Death:
  • 19850417
  • Sydney, New South Wales
Associated with:
  • Australia
  • England
  • United States
Occupations:
  • author
  • actress
  • astrologer
See also:
Notes:
  • For works of this author written under her real name, see Price, Evadne.
  • Wikipedia (viewed 23 April 2020) Evadne Price (Evadne Price (28 August 1888-17 April 1985), probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith. She is now best remembered for her World War I novel Not So Quiet (published in America as Stepdaughters of War) which adapts the style of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front to depict the experiences of British female ambulance drivers. During her lifetime she was known for her many romance novels, some of which were serialised in national newspapers, as well as for her children's books starring the popular character Jane Turpin. In the nineteen-fifties, she became a regular performer on television, as a storyteller and as an astrologer. For twenty-five years she published a monthly astrology column in SHE magazine ; Evadne Price's own account of her early life is full of contradictions. There is considerable evidence that she was born Eva Grace Price on 28 August 1888 in Merewether, New South Wales, Australia (NSW Registry of BDM cert. no. 1888/032162) ... The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography follows the Times obituarist in accepting her own claim that she was born at sea in 1896 but there is no birth certificate to support this, and she can not be found in the 1901 or 1911 British census listings) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evadne_Price
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)108404
  • 000001032194
  • abv06454816
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc