Gladys Bronwyn Stern

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Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973), born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism.

The National Portrait Gallery holds four portraits of her.

Career

GB Stern was born on 17 June 1890 in North Kensington, London, the second, by some years, of two sisters.[1]

She wrote her first novel at the age of 20, and then continued to write a novel every year. Her "Rakonitz" novels, e.g. The Rakonitz Chronicles (1932), were based on her cosmopolitan, non-practising Jewish family. Her plays include The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931), which was revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 2013.

With Sheila Kaye-Smith she wrote the dialogues Talking of Jane Austen and More Talk of Jane Austen. She also wrote a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Her final novel, Promise Not to Tell, was published in 1964.[1]

In 1966 her 1938 novel The Ugly Dachshund was made into a film, also titled The Ugly Dachshund.

She married New Zealander Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth in 1919, and sometimes collaborated with him. After World War II she became a Catholic.

She died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England on 28 September 1973.[1]

Daunt Books reissued The Matriarch on 27 June 2013.

Works

Plays

Novels

Short stories

Biography and Literary Criticism

Autobiography, Memoirs

Sources

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy (2006–2013). "G B Stern". Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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