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Gertrude Warden (1859-1925) was an English actress and writer, who wrote over 30 novels under her stage name, her name at birth being Gertrude Isobel Price and her married name Mrs John Wilton Jones.[1]

Life

Warden began life as Gertrude Isobel Price, the daughter of a stockbroker. Born in Hanworth, Middlesex, she was educated in Brighton and France. After a brief stint as a governess, Warden became an actress, working in both the London and provincial theatres, as well as touring America with Lillie Langtry. She married John Wilton Jones, an actor and writer in 1889[2], and the couple collaborated on plays together, but he died in 1897.[3] She remarried Auguste Devot de Quillacq in 1899. She was a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League (WWSL).[4]

One of her sisters also became a writer, adopting the name Florence Warden.[5]

Gertrude died in France in 1925.[6]

Selected works

  • The White Witch (London: R. Bentley, in three volumes, 1884)
  • As a Bird to the Snare (Bristol: Arrowsmith, in one volume, 1888)
  • The Dark Arches: A Romance of Three Lives (London: John Dicks, in one volume, 1890.)
  • The Haunted House at Kew (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1893 )
  • Five Old Maids: A Story of the South Coast (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1895 )
  • The Sentimental Sex (London: John Lane, in one volume, 1896 )
  • Her Fairy Prince (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1896)
  • The Wooing of a Fairy (London: Hurst and Blackett, in one volume, 1897)
  • An Angel of Evil (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1897)
  • Stage Love and True Love: A Story of the Theatre (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1900)
  • A Syndicate of Sinners (London: Digby, Long, in one volume, 1901)
  • The Crime of Monte Carlo (London: William Stevens, in one volume, 1901)
  • The Stolen Pearl (1903) with Robert Eustace
  • The Nut-Browne Mayd: A Riviera Mystery (1907)
  • The World, the Flesh and the Casino (1909)
  • ‘Romance of a Confetti’ Derby Daily Telegraph (Saturday 30 July 1927)

Notes

  1. ^ The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997). ISBN 978-0198-117605
  2. ^ “Price Gertude Isobel & John William Jones” in Register of Marriages for Kensington Registration District, vol. 1a 232 (1889)
  3. ^ The Sketch, Wednesday 20 November.
  4. ^ Park, Sowon (June 1997). "The First Professional: The Women Writers' Suffrage League". Modern Language Quarterly. 57 (2): 185–200. doi:10.1215/00267929-58-2-185. OCLC 91145060.
  5. ^ "Florence Warden (Florence Alice James) (1857 – 1929)". kent-maps.online. Retrieved 2021-07-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "At the Circulating Library: Gertrude Warden". victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


Category:1859 births Category:1925 deaths Category:English novelists Category:English stage actresses

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