Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten and Audrey Carten

Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten (1902-1990) was an English playwright writing under the name of Waveney Carten in collaboration with her sister, Audrey Carten.

Biography

Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten was born in 1902 into a middle-class family in Blomfield Road,

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, the daughter of Catherine and Edwin Hare Bicker-Caarten."Carten, Audrey (b. 1900)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. . Encyclopedia.com. 19 Jan. 2018
/ref> Among her siblings: Audrey Carten (1900-1977) and Kenneth Bicker Caarten (1911-1980). At the end of the 1920s, Waveney and her sister Audrey wrote a number of successful plays such as ''Happy Families'' (1929) (cowritten also with Jane Ross, produced by Gerald du Maurier), ''Change of Heart'' (1929) (produced by Du Maurier), ''Fame'' (1929), ''Q'', ''Late One Evening'', ''Gay Love'', ''Destination Unknown'', ''Strawberry Leaves'' and two adaptations, ''Mademoiselle'' and ''My Crime''. Beginning of the 1930s, Audrey Carten continued to write alone. In 1932, Waveney Carten married Vladimir Provatoroff.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caarten, Waveney Bicker 1902 births 1990 deaths 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights Writers from London