33 Facts About Evadne Price

Evadne Price, probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality.

Evadne Price is best remembered for her World War I novel Not So Quiet which adapts the style of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front to depict the experiences of British female ambulance drivers.

Evadne Price's claim to have British parents is unreliable, as BDM records show that they were both born in NSW, Australia.

Evadne Price died in 1921, not, as Evadne claimed, during her teens.

In July 1902 Eva Evadne Price obtained a bursary at the Maitland High School and in 1903 she attended the Largs Public School near Maitland.

Evadne Price performed in the end-of-year school concerts at these establishments, giving recitations.

In 1908 Eva Evadne Price played the First Twin in Australia's first production of "Peter Pan".

Evadne Price returned to the UK in 1912 advertising herself in The Stage newspaper as Miss Eva Price.

From 1912 to 1916 Evadne Price secured roles in provincial tours of dramatic productions: The Girl Who Knew A Bit, Mr Wu, Oh I Say, Within The Law.

Evadne Price was the eldest son of Canon Edward Sumner Bicknell Fletcher, Rector of Kibworth.

Evadne Price claimed to be a spinster on the GRO registration form.

Evadne Price resumed her stage career in 1919 until 1923 when she turned to journalism.

In 1939 Evadne Price Fletcher married the Australian writer, Kenneth Andrew Attiwill alias Ken Attiwill in Kent, England.

Evadne Price was the war correspondent for The People from 1943, covering the Allied invasion of Europe and many major war stories, including the Nuremberg Trials.

Evadne Price was the first woman journalist to enter the Belsen concentration camp.

Evadne Price's husband was a prisoner of war in Japan, and was presumed dead for two years.

Evadne Price began contributing short stories to the fiction magazines of the period.

Evadne Price did not take kindly to Jane stories being referred to as a copy of the William series.

Evadne Price went on record saying she "had never heard of William", even though William stories were regularly advertised on Jane book dust jackets.

In 1930, Albert E Marriott, who had recently started a publishing company, asked Evadne Price, who was known for her skill at pastiche, to write a parodic version of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, featuring women at war; his suggested title was All Quaint on the Western Front.

Evadne Price told him that he should publish an authentic account of women at war, and he asked her to write it, despite her protests that she was too young to know anything about the war.

Evadne Price sold these to the Daily Mail for a considerable advance, and then absconded.

Under her own name, Evadne Price was a successful writer of thrillers and romance novels.

Evadne Price wrote over 150 paperback novelettes for cheaply produced series such as The Lucky Star Library, The Glamour Library and The Silver Star Library, as well as longer romance novels that were published in hardback.

Evadne Price was a vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Evadne Price's play Big Ben, written for the Malvern Festival in 1939, was a successful one.

Evadne Price acted in the movie Trouble with Junia in the minor part of Miss Hallyday, beside her husband Ken Attiwill.

Evadne Price had a parallel career as a broadcaster during the early years of British television.

Evadne Price was dubbed the "new astrologer extraordinaire" for twenty-five years for the SHE magazine and published a successful collection of these columns as SHE Stargazes.

When she and her husband retired to their native Australia in 1976, Evadne Price wrote the monthly horoscope column for Australian Vogue.

Evadne Price appeared weekly on the ITV Central evening news magazine show with a 5-minute astrological reading, and she would always close with the catchphrase "think lucky and you'll be lucky".

Evadne Price died on 17 April 1985 in Sydney, Australia, aged 96.

Evadne Price has an unfinished autobiography which was to have been named Mother Painted Nude.