Eleanor Wren is a niece of the writer Catherine Helen Spence. Wren is the daughter of Catherine Spence’s younger sister, Mary. Eleanor Wren lived with her aunt and her grandmother from the 1860s until the late 1880s and Spence contributed to her niece’s upbringing. Eleanor Wren gave her aunt’s diaries to Jeanne Young to enable Young to complete the serialisation of Spence’s Autobiography in the Register. This may have been in opposition to the wishes of Wren's cousin Lucy Spence Morice.
Source: Susan Magarey, Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (2010)
