Evadne Price

Playwright, Author

1888 – 1985

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Who was Evadne Price?

Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-born writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith.

She became famous for her many romance novels, most of which were serialised in the national newspapers, as well as her children's books starring the popular character Jane Turpin. She also published an occasional astrology column for SHE magazine, and is now best remembered for her semi-biographical World War I novel Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War, a feminist reprise to All Quiet on the Western Front. In Germany she'd been compared to Adrienne Thomas, whose book, Katrin becomes a soldier was published in 1930. She was a vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Born
Aug 28, 1888
United Kingdom
Also known as
  • Helen Zenna Smith
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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
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Died
Apr 17, 1985
Sydney

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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