Cora Gordon

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Cora Gordon

1879–1950

A restless traveler as well as an artist, she turned journeys through Europe and the Balkans into lively books full of observation, humor, and atmosphere. Her work carries the feeling of seeing places at close range, through both a painter’s eye and a storyteller’s voice.

2 Audiobooks

The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

by Cora Gordon, Jan Gordon

Poor Folk in Spain

Poor Folk in Spain

by Cora Gordon, Jan Gordon

About the author

Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, Cora Josephine Gordon (1879–1950) was a British painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, lecturer, traveller, and musician. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and later exhibited widely, including in Paris and in London galleries.

She is especially remembered for the books she created with her husband, the artist and writer Jan Gordon. Together they travelled extensively and wrote popular travel books including Two Vagabonds in the Balkans (1925), Two Vagabonds in Albania (1927), and London Roundabout (1933), bringing a lively, personal voice to the places they explored.

Her career crossed visual art and literature with unusual ease. That mix of painterly detail and first-hand travel experience gives her writing its distinctive charm, and helps explain why her work still appeals to readers interested in art, travel, and the texture of everyday life.