Wentworth-James, Gertie de S
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of UK author Gertrude Wentworth-James (1874-1933), born Gertrude Soilleux Webster, who sometimes wrote as Gertie S Wentworth-James. Some of her fifty or more flirtatious but ultimately decorous romances contain elements of sf interest, beginning with The Soul That Came Back (1922), a tale of Reincarnation. In the Near Future The Television Girl (1928), an osteopath falls in love with a young woman who appears accidentally on the screen of his telephone (see Communications); she turns out to be a wrong number, but the plot thickens. [JC]
Gertrude Soilleux Wentworth-James
born London: 1874
died 1933
works (highly selected)
- The Soul That Came Back (London: T Werner Laurie, 1922) [hb/]
- My Lynke (London: C W Daniel, 1925) [hb/]
- Girl Everlasting (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1927) [hb/]
- The Television Girl (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1928) [hb/]
- Magic Mating: An Emotional Alphabet (London: Alston Rivers, 1929) [hb/]
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