GLADYS BRONWYN STERN

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'Gladys Bronwyn Stern' or 'GB Stern', 18901973, born 'Gladys ''Bertha'' Stern' in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. 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-practicing Jewish family. She married New Zealander Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth in 1919, and sometimes collaborated with him. After World War II she became a Catholic. Her 1938 novel ''The Ugly Dachshund'' was made into a film.
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. She died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.

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