John Gilbert

AHG died, just one year and two days after her husband .

In Antigua, Anne Hart married John Gilbert after many practical difficulties stemming from their racial difference (which did not end with their marriage). Thirty-two years later, however, he said he had no regrets.

It became even more popular when Jesse Lasky made a silent film of it, starring Rudolph Valentino , in 1921.

By now her Hollywood career had begun to taper off, as her contract with Paramount expired in this year. She made only one film in the US after 1928: a talkie entitled Such Men are...

Two years after the death of white Antiguan John Gilbert and one year after that of his coloured wife, AHG , there appeared at Liverpool a Memoir of J. G., to which each contributed a part.

AHG and her husband moved from St John's (the capital of Antigua, close to her childhood home) to English Harbour.

Shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, John Gilbert left his storekeeper job. He and AHG moved back from English Harbour to St John's, but sixteen months later he was reappointed and they...

In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...

AHG says she writes unsystematically because her grief for her husband will not allow her to concentrate, but the loose structure of her writing is no more marked than that of other memoirs of around...