She was born as Eva Isabella Henrietta Hanbury-Tracy, the eldest child of the 4th Lord Sudeley. She grew up in Gloucestershire at Toddington Manor, near Tewkesbury. Her two immediate siblings were boys and she grew up a somewhat lonely child, resorting to creative writing from a young age.
She cultivated a wide circle of similar-minded friends and began writing seriously at age 14. As an adult, she had some success with poems, newspaper columns, short stories, one play and several novels. She had a special "den" in her home where she would sit and read or write.
Sometimes in London she would go to Clifford"s Inn, where she had a small personal office.
She may have written another play, Old Clothes, mentioned in a collectors" item manuscript - a letter written in March 1904 by Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934), who is also known as F. Anstey. She died at her home in Chelsea, from bronchial pneumonia, on 19 June 1935, aged 66.
