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Cora Gordon
1879–1950
A journalist, war correspondent, and novelist, she reported from conflict zones and turned those experiences into vivid fiction and memoir. Her life moved between Scotland, South Africa, and the wider British Empire, giving her work a strong sense of place and adventure.
2 Audiobooks
The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
by Jan Gordon, Cora Gordon
Poor Folk in Spain
by Jan Gordon, Cora Gordon
About the author
Born in 1879, she became known as a Scottish journalist and author whose career ranged far beyond the desk. She worked in South Africa and wrote during a period shaped by war and imperial politics, building a reputation as both a reporter and a storyteller.
Her life included first-hand experience of major events, including service as a war correspondent during the First World War. That background fed into her writing, which often drew on travel, conflict, and the complicated realities of colonial society.
She died in 1950. Today, she is remembered as a versatile early twentieth-century writer whose journalism and fiction were closely connected, with each helping to give the other energy and realism.