Waveney Bicker Caarten

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

Waveney Hare Bicker-Caarten was born in 1902 into a middle-class family in Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, London, the daughter of Catherine and Edwin Hare Bicker-Caarten.

[1][2] Among her siblings: Audrey Carten (1900-1977) and Kenneth Bicker Caarten (1911-1980).

[citation needed] At the end of the 1920s, Waveney and her sister Audrey wrote a number of successful plays[3] such as Happy Families (1929) (cowritten also with Jane Ross, produced by Gerald du Maurier),[4][5] Change of Heart (1929) (produced by Du Maurier),[6] Fame (1929),[7] Q, Late One Evening, Gay Love, Destination Unknown, Strawberry Leaves and two adaptations, Mademoiselle and My Crime.

[1] Beginning of the 1930s, Audrey Carten continued to write alone.