Catherine Spence died on 3 April 1910 with her 'Autobiography' only two-thirds complete. The executor of her will, Eleanor Wren, wrote to Spence's niece, Lucy Morice, asking her to complete her aunt's autobiography. She did not reply immediately and by the time she was ready to post a response accepting the task, Eleanor Wren had given the responsibility to Jeanne F. Young.
The 'Introduction' to Ever Yours, C. H. Spence (2005): 10 comments: 'Between them, Eleanor Wren, Jeanne Young and the editor of the Register, William Sowden, decided that the remaining chapters should be written in the first person, 'to avoid a break in the story.' Eleanor Wren handed over to Jeanne Young the diaries that Catherine Spence kept every year of her life after she had turned twenty-four, and a 'mass of notes' which Catherine Spence had prepared for the remainder of her life-story, and Jeanne Young valiantly set about the final eight chapters. The whole book was published in December 1910.'
(Source: Susan Magarey 'Introduction' in Ever Yours C. H. Spence ed. Susan Magarey et.al. (2005): 1-14).
