GB Stern was born on 17 June 1890 in North Kensington, London, the second, by some years, of two sisters.
Gladys was schooled in England until the age of 16, when, with her parents, she traveled to Continental Europe and studied in Germany and Switzerland.
They are well-to-do and cosmopolitan Jews who settled in England from Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Austria.
The book describes in detail the complicated, florid and noisy life of this Jewish-English family through both triumphs and failures, weddings and funerals.
[5] Stern's plays include The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931), which was revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 2013.
Her closest male friends were the playwright John van Druten and Jack Cohen.