1896 Scarce First Edition - A FRENCH WITCH by Gertrude Warden.

Author: Gertrude Warden.
Title: A French Witch.
Publisher: New York: The Federal Book Company, 1896. First edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 263 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Uncommon.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).  


Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies available worldwide).

The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of A French Witch by Gertrude Warden.

The author: Gertrude Warden (1859–1925) 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. Warden began life as Gertrude Isobel Price, the daughter of a stockbroker. Born in Hanworth, Middlesex, 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). One of her sisters also became a writer, adopting the name Florence Warden. Gertrude died in France in 1925.