author
Gertrude Page
1872–1922
A hugely popular novelist in the early 1900s, she wrote warm, dramatic stories that often drew on life in Southern Rhodesia and helped make her an international bestseller. Her best-known novel, Paddy the Next Best Thing, later reached the screen and kept her name alive long after her lifetime.
3 Audiobooks
The Rhodesian
by Gertrude Page
Winding Paths
by Gertrude Page
Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
by Gertrude Page
About the author
Gertrude Page was an English-born novelist, born in 1872, who became widely known for romantic fiction with a strong sense of place. Reliable sources identify her as Gertrude Eliza Page, and note that she wrote from a young age before later settling in Southern Rhodesia, where much of her later work found its setting.
Her novels were especially popular in the early twentieth century. Works linked with her include Love in the Wilderness, The Rhodesian, Winding Paths, and Paddy the Next Best Thing, the book most often remembered today. Contemporary and later reference sources describe her as a bestselling writer whose fiction connected with a broad reading public.
She died in 1922 in Southern Rhodesia. Although she is less widely read now than in her own day, she remains an interesting figure in popular fiction, especially for readers curious about early twentieth-century romance and colonial-era storytelling.