Woman of the Century — Gertrude Bloede (1893)
“ I go into society but little, and I do not belong to anything." Miss Bloede professes to find in the city the seclusion which pastoral poets find in rural life. She is an artist in human passions, not in mere word and scene painting. ”
Woman of the Century — Gertrude Bloede (1893)
“ Although she goes into society but little, she numbers among her friends the most prominent literary people of New York. She is not a member of any of the women's organizations in Brooklyn, as she feels that the artwork of societies from which men are excluded amounts to little. ”
Woman of the Century — Gertrude Bloede (1893)
“ BLOEDE, Miss Gertrude, poet, born in Dresden, Germany, 10th August, 1845. Her father and mothe r were among the refugees who fled from Germany in consequence of the revolution GERTRUD BLOEDE. of 1848. In this country they were intimate friends of Bayard Taylor, at whose house they met Stedman, Stoddard, Aldrich and other well-known American poets and authors. ”
