G. B. Stern
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, who was writing through a large stretch of the twentieth century, published over forty novels of a middle-brow character, as well as light plays, short stories, informal criticism, and haphazard autobiographical memoirs. Her high reputation has somewhat declined, but her family saga about the cosmopolitan Jewish Rakonitz family is still remembered.
- BirthName: Gladys Bertha SternAt school, she later remembered, she was called Gladys Stern.
- Nicknames: Peter; TynxThis was the name used by her friends. She gave it to a heroine of an early book, whose christened name is Pepita.This was affectionately invented by, and was intended to suggest both a tigress and a sphinx, though its owner observed that it did neither.
- Self-constructed: BronwynHaving never liked the name Bertha, which she thought leaves an effect of mud, , on impulse, and in a moment of Celtic longings, changed it to Bronwyn for her entry in Who's Who. This gave it permanence.
- Pseudonym: G. B. S.She calls these initials firmly mine in spite of competition!—thinking of .
- Indexed: G. B. Stern