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.
Colour, head-and-shoulders drawing of G. B. Stern, wearing a white cap and a black scarf. The edges of her image fade into the white background. The image was likely used on a pre-war cigarette card.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Literary responses Sheila Kaye-Smith
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.
79
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.
85
The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...
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.
xiv-xv
When he further...
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.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
90
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.
45
Keith, Rhonda. British Novelists 1890-1929: Modernists. Editor Staley, Thomas F., Gale Research Company, pp. 169-71.
170
It took five years for FMM
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...
Friends, Associates E. Nesbit
The friends of EN 's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele , Edward Andrade , actresses Athene Seyler and Sybil Thorndike , and writers Noël Coward , G. B. Stern , Lord Dunsany
Textual Features Berta Ruck
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.
Friends, Associates May Sinclair
Her articles and critical reviews were encouraging for many writers, including T. S. Eliot .
Scott, Bonnie Kime. Refiguring Modernism. Indiana University Press.
85
Sinclair also made the acquaintance of other women writers, including Alice Meynell , Ida Wylie (a close friend), Rebecca West
Friends, Associates May Sinclair
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...
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...

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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.
Stern, G. B. The Young Matriarch. Cassell, 1942.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell, 1944.