A Life Immersed in Family & Landscape Gertrude Mary Powys (1877-1952) occupies a unique and poignant position within the celebrated Powys family—a constellation of writers whose intellectual fervor and unconventional spirits defined much of early 20th-century British literature. While her brothers, John Cowper, Theodore Francis, and Llewelyn, achieved lasting renown for their novels and philosophical explorations, Gertrude carved her…