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Gertrude Hall Brownell
1863–1961
A poet, novelist, and translator with a transatlantic sensibility, she moved easily between verse, fiction, and French literature. Her work carries the polished, cosmopolitan feel of a writer shaped by years in Europe and by a long literary life in New York.
4 Audiobooks
The Wagnerian Romances
by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Aurora the Magnificent
by Gertrude Hall Brownell
The Hundred, and Other Stories
by Gertrude Hall Brownell
The Nowadays Girls in the Adirondacks : or, The deserted bungalow on Saranac Lake
by Gertrude Hall Brownell
About the author
Born in Boston on September 8, 1863, Gertrude Hall Brownell was educated largely in Florence, Italy, after her family moved abroad when she was young. That international upbringing helped shape a literary career that ranged across poetry, short stories, novels, essays, and translations from French.
She published under the name Gertrude Hall and became known for books including Foam of the Sea, The Hundred and Other Stories, and April's Sowing. She also translated French writers, including Paul Verlaine, showing the strong European influence that ran through her work.
In 1921 she married the American critic William Crary Brownell. After his death, she helped preserve his legacy by editing an anthology of his writings and writing a memoir about their later years together. She died in New York City on February 28, 1961, leaving behind a varied body of work that reflects both literary grace and a lifelong love of European culture.