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.The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997).
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,"Price Gertude Isobel & John William Jones" in Register of Marriages for Kensington Registration District, vol. 1a 232 (1889) and the couple collaborated on plays together, but he died in 1897.The Sketch, Wednesday 20 November. 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.
One of her sisters also became a writer, adopting the name Florence Warden.
Gertrude spent her later years in France. She died in Monaco on 3 May 1925.
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External links The Sentimental Sex online at the Library of Congress, full text Her Fairy Prince online at the Library of Congress, full text Gertrude Warden The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News Saturday 6 January 1886