Gertrude Warden

Born Gertrude Isobel Price in Brixton on 27 May 1859, she became known to readers as Gertrude Warden. She was an English actress and writer, and she was also the sister of novelist Florence Warden.

Before building her reputation as an author, she worked on the stage, appearing in theatre under the name Gertrude Warden. That theatrical background seems to have shaped the vivid scenes and strong dramatic turns in her fiction.

She went on to write more than 30 novels, including romance, mystery, and historical stories, and published under her stage name rather than her married name, Mrs. John Wilton Jones. She died on 3 May 1925, leaving behind a large body of popular fiction from the late Victorian and early 20th-century period.