In "
The Naked Sun" and later
robot books by
Isaac Asimov, Gladia
is a
woman from
Solaria who is suspected of murdering her
husband. She works as an
artist, creating "field colourings", and
later she is described as using her artistic creations to decorate her
robots.
She falls in love with Elijah Baley, who helps her emigrate to
Aurora after the end of "The Naked Sun". In "The Robots of Dawn",
her humaniform robot Jander whom she considered to be her husband is
destroyed, and she meets Elijah again when he is called to Aurora to
find out who killed Jander. Later she marries the young Auroran
Santirix Gremionis.
In "Robots and Empire", which is set two centuries after the other
robot novels, Gladia and her two robots Daneel and Giskard travel
the galaxy with D. G. Baley, a seventh-generation descendant of Elijah
Baley. Gladia eventually decides to move to Earth and devote her
life to promoting peace between Spacers and Settlers so that they can
both continue to colonise new planets.