Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
G. B. Stern
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Standard Name: Stern, G. B.
Birth Name: Gladys Bertha Stern
Self-constructed Name: Bronwyn
Indexed Name: G. B. Stern
Pseudonym: G. B. Stern
Nickname: Peter
Nickname: Tynx
GBS
, 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.
PF
was in the USA during the period of collapse described by Stern
, but she returned to England in November 1940, as the bombs were falling most thickly.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Clemence Dane
After she finished this adaptation, G. B. Stern
introduced her to Max Beerbohm. At this meeting the idea of casting Ivor Novello
in The Happy Hypocrite first came up, suggested by Beerbohm's niece Viola Tree
Textual Production
Pamela Frankau
PF
published Shaken in the Wind, the novel with which her friend G. B. Stern
felt she first reached her potential.
The title comes from St Matthew's gospel: Christ asks people why they went...
Textual Production
Flora Macdonald Mayor
This novel sold reasonably well and FMM
was again lauded by several contemporary critics, including E. M. Forster
, G. B. Stern
, and Rebecca West
.
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
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Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, pp. 169-71.
This, like her previous volume of memoirs, is deliberately non-monologic and non-chronological, rather like the similar books of BR
's near-contemporary G. B. Stern
, but giving perhaps even more space to the voices of other people.
Residence
Georgette Heyer
The following year they moved to a haunted house in Macedonia. In 1930 they returned to England, where they occupied various homes. Their first was near Horsham; the second, where they stayed...
Reception
Louisa May Alcott
Following her death, G. K. Chesterton
in a laudatory (if sexist) review classed LMA
with Austen
as an early realist, and praised her apt depictions of human truths.
Chesterton, G. K. “Louisa Alcott”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 212-14.
213-14
She was a favourite writer...
Material Conditions of Writing
Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS
's novel Little England, written during the First World War, is, says G. B. Stern
, infused with . . . maternal brooding tenderness.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
Critics, wrote her friend G. B. Stern
years later, took her writing to be masculine in its picaresque gusto and boldness. Some enjoyed this tendency in her first novel, but some were shocked.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
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Literary responses
Sheila Kaye-Smith
This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS
said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
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The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...
Literary responses
Maria Callcott
This time MC
succeeded in rivalling A History of England by Mrs. Markham (Elizabeth Penrose
). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sees Little Arthur's History of England as proto-Victorian in offering to children...
Literary responses
Sheila Kaye-Smith
G. B. Stern
mentions that this book made an impression on the public comparable to that of SKS
's Sussex Gorse or Joanna Godden; its popularity stemmed largely from those who sympathised with its...
Literary responses
Sheila Kaye-Smith
G. B. Stern
felt that among SKS
's postwar novels, this one and the next, The View from the Parsonage, 1954, are even superior to her earlier books in humor, shrewdness and mental breadth...
Literary responses
Sheila Kaye-Smith
G. B. Stern
calls this book Kaye-Smith's most important contribution to Catholic literature.
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Timeline
1752: Francis Coventry anonymously published The...
Writing climate item
1752
Francis Coventry
anonymously published The History of Pompey the Little; or, the life and adventures of a lap-dog, a novelà clef which satirizes Pompey's successive owners.
26 October 1951: At the general election the postwar reforming...
National or international item
26 October 1951
At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee
polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill
Texts
Stern, G. B. "See-Saw". Hutchinson, 1914.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Coram, 1957.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
Stern, G. B. A Name to Conjure With. Collins, 1953.
Stern, G. B. All in Good Time. Sheed and Ward, 1954.
Stern, G. B. Another Part of the Forest. Cassell, 1941.
Stern, G. B. Benefits Forgot. Cassell, 1949.
Stern, G. B. Bouquet. Chapman and Hall, 1927.
Stern, G. B. Children of No Man’s Land. Duckworth, 1919.
Stern, G. B. He Wrote Treasure Island. Heinemann, 1954.
Stern, G. B. Johnny Forsaken. Collins, 1954.
Stern, G. B. Little Red Horses. Heinemann, 1932.
Stern, G. B. Long Lost Father. E. Benn, 1932.
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall, 1936.
Kaye-Smith, Sheila, and G. B. Stern. More Talk of Jane Austen. Cassell, 1950.
Stern, G. B. No Son of Mine. Cassell, 1948.
Stern, G. B. Pantomime. Hutchinson, 1914.
Stern, G. B. Pelican Walking. Heinemann, 1934.
Stern, G. B. Promise Not to Tell. Collins, 1964.
Stern, G. B. Shining and Free. Heinemann, 1935.
Kaye-Smith, Sheila, and G. B. Stern. Talking of Jane Austen. Cassell, 1943.
Stern, G. B. Tents of Israel. Chapman and Hall, 1924.
Stern, G. B. The Augs. Heinemann, 1933.
Stern, G. B. The Dark Gentleman. Chapman and Hall, 1927.
