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Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973), born Gladys ''Bertha'' Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. The National Portrait Gallery holds four portraits of her.() ==Career== GB Stern was born on 17 June 1890 in North Kensington, London, the second, by some years, of two sisters.〔 She wrote her first novel at the age of 20, and then continued to write a novel every year. Her "Rakonitz" novels, e.g. ''The Rakonitz Chronicles'' (1932), were based on her cosmopolitan, non-practising Jewish family. Her plays include ''The Man Who Pays The Piper'' (1931), which was revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 2013. With Sheila Kaye-Smith she wrote the dialogues ''Talking of Jane Austen'' and ''More Talk of Jane Austen''. She also wrote a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. Her final novel, ''Promise Not to Tell'', was published in 1964. In 1966 her 1938 novel ''The Ugly Dachshund'' was made into a film, also titled ''The Ugly Dachshund''. She married New Zealander Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth in 1919, and sometimes collaborated with him. After World War II she became a Catholic. She died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England on 28 September 1973.〔 Daunt Books reissued ''The Matriarch ''on 27 June 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gladys Bronwyn Stern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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