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Gertrude Forde
Best known for her 1880 travel book on Corsica and a handful of late-Victorian novels, this elusive writer still leaves more questions than answers. The surviving record is slim, but her work suggests a sharp eye for place and a taste for dramatic storytelling.
2 Audiobooks
A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Gertrude Forde
A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Gertrude Forde
About the author
Gertrude Forde was a 19th-century author whose life details remain largely untraced in the sources available online. A Victorian studies reference notes that her birth and death dates are unknown, but credits her with A Lady's Tour of Corsica (1880) and novels including In the Old Palazzo (1885) and Driven Before the Storm (1887).
Library and catalog records also link her to other fiction, including Only a Coral Girl and Rupert Alison; or, Broken Lights. Even with so little biographical information surviving, her bibliography points to a writer active in travel writing as well as popular fiction during the late 19th century.
Because confirmed personal details are so scarce, the books themselves are the clearest way to approach her today: through atmospheric settings, period feeling, and the perspective of a woman publishing in the Victorian era.