Background
She was born in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, to English and Spanish Australian parents.
She was born in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, to English and Spanish Australian parents.
Her short stories were published in the Sydney Mail and the Sydney Morning Herald, and she co-wrote The Happy Vagabond with Hilary Lofting (1928). Her father was born in British Ceylon, and arrived in Australia as a child. As a girl, Fane had aspired to be an opera singer like her mother.