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Gertrude Warden (1859–1925) was an English actress and writer, who wrote over 30 novels under her stage name, her name at birth being Gertrude Isobel Price and her married name Mrs John Wilton Jones.[1]


Life


Warden began life as Gertrude Isobel Price, the daughter of a stockbroker. Born in Hanworth, Middlesex, she was educated in Brighton and France. After a brief stint as a governess, Warden became an actress, working in both the London and provincial theatres, as well as touring America with Lillie Langtry. She performed in Judah at the Shaftesbury Theatre with Bessie Hatton in 1890.[2] She married John Wilton Jones,[lower-alpha 1] an actor and writer in 1889,[5] and the couple collaborated on plays together, but he died in 1897.[6] She remarried Auguste Devot de Quillacq in 1899. She was a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League (WWSL).[7]

One of her sisters also became a writer, adopting the name Florence Warden.[8]

Gertrude died in France in 1925.[9]


Selected works



Notes


  1. Jones, generally referred to as "Wilton Jones" or "J. Wilton Jones", wrote A Yorkshire Lass for Mary Eastlake,[3] also On an Island, A Scapegoat[4] and a pantomime Babes in the Wood in which Robin Hood made an appearance.

References


  1. The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997). ISBN 978-0198-117605
  2. "Shaftesbury Theatre". Morning Post. 30 June 1890. p. 6.
  3. "General News". The Gloucester Advocate. Vol. 7, no. 429. New South Wales, Australia. 11 October 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 25 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "London Table Talk". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XXX, no. 8, 844. South Australia. 13 May 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 25 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. “Price Gertude Isobel & John William Jones” in Register of Marriages for Kensington Registration District, vol. 1a 232 (1889)
  6. The Sketch, Wednesday 20 November.
  7. Park, Sowon (June 1997). "The First Professional: The Women Writers' Suffrage League". Modern Language Quarterly. 57 (2): 185–200. doi:10.1215/00267929-58-2-185. OCLC 91145060.
  8. "Florence Warden (Florence Alice James) (1857 – 1929)". kent-maps.online. Retrieved 2021-07-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. "At the Circulating Library: Gertrude Warden". victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "Review of The Nut-Browne Mayd by Gertrude Warden". The Athenaeum (4159): 37. July 13, 1907.





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