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.
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.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Sheila Kaye-Smith
W. L. George
persuaded her to set this book in Sussex (instead of the Channel Island setting she was planning) on grounds of her identification with Sussex in the public mind.
Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii.
MS
's friendship with Charlotte Mew
(whom she met through Catharine Dawson Scott in spring 1913) is still the subject of debate and disagreement among commentators. Mew kept the letters she received from her, but...
Friends, Associates
Rebecca West
Over her lifetime, RW
made countless friends. These included US journalist Dorothy Thompson
(whose long-lasting friendship with her is treated in Susan Hertog
's double biography Dangerous Ambition. Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women...
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker
observes that she used the nickname Willy George for...
Friends, Associates
Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS
was an intimate friend for some forty years of novelist Gladys Stern
(known as Peter), with whom she jointly authored several books. Stern said Kaye-Smith's close friends were those with tremendous vitality, capable...
Friends, Associates
Mary Butts
A party at MB
's flat at 43 Belsize Park Gardens in London was attended by Evelyn Waugh
, G. B. Stern
, and Rebecca West
.
Blaser, Robin et al. “Afterword”. Imaginary Letters, Talonbooks, pp. 61-80.
Her father, Gilbert Frankau
, novelist and womaniser, came from a gifted family full of writers. He was divorced from his wife, and (in G. B. Stern
's words) nonchalantly strolled out of [Pamela's] existence...
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Mew
There has been much speculation, both at the time and more recently, about the nature of the relationship between the two writers. CM
seems to have fallen in love, but Sinclair was not receptive, not...
Dedications
Rebecca West
This semi-autobiographical novel was West's third to appear after her death. Dedicated to G. B. Stern
, it was based on West's affair with Lord Beaverbrook
.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, pp. 268-76.
268, 270
In 1928 she still planned to...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Stern, G. B., and John Van Druten. The Rakonitz Chronicles. Chapman and Hall, 1932.
Stern, G. B. The Way it Worked Out. Sheed and Ward, 1956.