Gertrude Warden

Gertrude Warden (27 May 1859 – 3 May 1925) was an English actress and writer, who wrote over 30 novels under her stage name, her name at birth being Gertrude Isobel Price and her married name Mrs John Wilton Jones.

Life Warden began life as Gertrude Isobel Price, the daughter of a stockbroker. Born in Brixton on 27 May 1859, she was educated in Brighton and France. After a brief stint as a governess, Warden became an actress, working in both the London and provincial theatres, as well as touring America with Lillie Langtry. She performed in Judah at the Shaftesbury Theatre with Bessie Hatton in 1890. She married John Wilton Jones, an actor and writer in 1889, and the couple collaborated on plays together, but he died in 1897. She remarried Auguste Devot de Quillacq in 1899. She was a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League (WWSL) and on the executive committee of the Actors' Orphanage Fund.

Gertrude spent her later years in France. She died in Monaco on 3 May 1925. The Moth and the Footlights (London: Digby, Long, Co., 1906) The Grey Sister (1906) A Crime in the Alps (1908) Actress's Husband (1908) The World, the Flesh and the Casino (1909) Severn Affair (London: John Long, 1909) Stand and Deliver! The Adventures of a Clever Woman (1910) Haunted (1911) The Woman who Tempted (London : Ward, Lock & Co, 1912) The Path of Virtue: A Romance of the Musical Comedy Stage (F. V. White, 1912) Diana of Dartmoor (London: Digby, Long and Co., 1913) Two Girls and a Saint (1915) 'Romance of a Confetti' Derby Daily Telegraph (Saturday 30 July 1927) Maison Hantee (1927) In Spite of Proof Whose was the crime? A Stage Heroine; or, In the Glare of the Footlights