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Gladys Malvern was an American vaudeville and Broadway actress, radio script writer, and writer, best remembered for her prolific output of historical and biographical novels for young adults. As a child actress, she appeared in the 1908 Broadway production of The Man Who Stood Still. She authored Patriot's Daughter: The Story of Anastasia Lafayette, a historical novel about the daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.[1][6]