[1] She was the author of more than 100 romance novels, and short-stories for magazines and newspapers.

[2] Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was born about 1858 or 1859 in New South Wales, Australia.

She was the illegitimate daughter of the English Alexander Henderson (1828–1886) and Maria Nelson (her parents' marriage wasn't legal, because her father was already married).

Her sister Caroline Sidney Henderson (alias Carrie Hope) and her niece Maria Effie Hallatt (alias May Hallatt), were actresses.

In 1896, she married Carlo Albanesi (1859-1926), an Italian concert pianist, teacher and composer who from 1893 settled in London and taught at the Royal Academy of Music.