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Gertrude Bone
1876–1962
An early 20th-century British writer with a gift for short stories, novels, and beautifully illustrated books, she often worked in creative partnership with the artists in her family. Her writing is closely tied to the Edwardian period and to a lively literary-artistic world.
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Women of the Country
by Gertrude Bone
About the author
Born Gertrude Helena Dodd in Glasgow in 1876, she became known as Gertrude Helena Bone, later Lady Bone, after marrying the Scottish artist Muirhead Bone in 1903. Reliable source material describes her as a British writer of the Edwardian era who published short stories, three novels, and several illustrated collections.
Her work often overlapped with the visual arts. Records from the Royal Academy note collaborations with her husband and with her son Stephen Bone, including books that combined her writing with illustrations. That connection gives her bibliography a distinctive feel, placing her at the meeting point of literature, travel writing, and book illustration.
She died in 1962. Although she is not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, the surviving references to her work show a writer with a clear place in early 20th-century British literary culture.