- Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern, 1890–1973, born Gladys "Bertha" Stern in
London ,England , wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism.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-practicing Jewish family. She married New Zealander Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth in 1919, and sometimes collaborated with him. After World War II she became a Catholic. Her 1938 novel "The Ugly Dachshund" was made into a film.
With
Sheila Kaye-Smith she wrote the dialogues "Talking ofJane Austen " and "More Talk of Jane Austen". She also wrote a biography ofRobert Louis Stevenson . She died inWallingford ,Oxfordshire ,England .External links
* [http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/gbstern.htm Bibliography of GB Stern’s works]
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