Gertrude Page

Educated at Bedford High School, Page wrote for ''The Girl's Own Paper as a teenager. Marrying George Alexander "Alec" Dobbin in 1902, she moved with him to Rhodesia, where she died in 1922. In The Rhodesian'' (1914), Page writes admiringly of agricultural productivity and colonial settlement in her "empty" Rhodesian landscapes: "The Valley of Ruins no longer lies alone and unheeded in the sunlight; and no longer do the hills look down upon rich plains left solely to ... idle pleasures." ==Selected bibliography==

• Love in the Wilderness, 1907 • Paddy the Next Best Thing, 1908 • ''The Edge O' Beyond'', 1908 • The Silent Rancher, 1909 • Two Lovers and a Lighthouse, 1910 • Where the Strange Roads Go Down, 1910 • ''Jill's Rhodesian Philosophy, or, The Dam Farm'', 1910 • Winding Paths, 1911 • The Rhodesian, 1912 • The Great Splendour, 1912 • The Pathway, 1914 • Follow After, 1915 • Some There Are, 1916 • The Supreme Desire, 1916 • The Course of My Ship (with Foster-Melliar), 1918 • The Veldt Trail, 1919 • Far From the Limelight (and other tales), 1920 • Jill on a Ranch, 1922 • The Mysterious Strangers ==References==