Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)
Auteur van The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
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Werken van Gertrude Atherton
The Aristocrats: Being the Impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during Her Sojourn in the Great North Woods as… (1901) 10 exemplaren
The Jealous Gods: A Processional Novel of the Fifth Century, B.C. (Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 5 exemplaren
The Horn of Life 3 exemplaren
The Travelling Thirds 3 exemplaren
A Whirl Asunder 3 exemplaren
The Foghorn [short story] 3 exemplaren
A Few of Hamilton's Letters: Including His Description of the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1772 (1903) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
His Fortunate Grace 2 exemplaren
Collected Stories (HTML only) 2 exemplaren
The Bell In The Fog [short story] 2 exemplaren
Hermia Suydam 1 exemplaar
Life in the War Zone 1 exemplaar
Before the Gringo Came 1 exemplaar
The Caves of Death [short story] 1 exemplaar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplaar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 exemplaar
The Foghorn and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
JEALOUS GODS, The a Processional Novel of the Fifth Century B. C.(Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 1 exemplaar
In Memoriam: Charles Caldwell Dobie 1 exemplaar
The Striding-Place and Other Horror Stories 1 exemplaar
The Pearls of Loreto 1 exemplaar
Golden Peacock 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Officiële naam
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
- Geboortedatum
- 1857-10-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1948-06-14
- Graflocatie
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- San Francisco, California, USA
San Jose, California, USA - Beroepen
- freelance writer
historian
novelist
autobiographer
short story writer
feminist - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1938)
San Francisco PEN - Korte biografie
- Gertrude Atherton, née Gertrude Franklin Horn, was born in San Francisco, California. Her parents separated when she was two years old and she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a relative of Benjamin Franklin, on his ranch near San Jose. She went to high school at St. Mary's Hall in Benicia, California, and briefly attended the Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1876, after returning from Kentucky, she met and eloped with George H.B. Atherton, who had been courting her divorced mother. She went to live with him on his estate at Fair Oaks, California (now the town of Atherton), where she began writing, despite his opposition. Her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods, was published under a pseudonym in serial form in the San Francisco Argonaut in 1882, and later appeared in book form as A Daughter of the Vine (1899.) In 1887, her husband died at sea, leaving Gertrude free but with a daughter to support. She traveled to New York City and then to England and Europe, producing more than 40 novels in rapid succession. Many of them featured strong heroines and dealt with feminist issues. Her works included The Conqueror (1902), a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and her biggest success, the semi-autobiographical Black Oxen (1923). It was adapted into a silent film. She also wrote numerous popular books on the history and culture of Spanish California as well as freelance articles for The New York World, book reviews for Vanity Fair, and short stories. She wrote several stories of supernatural horror, including the often-anthologized "The Striding Place." She also wrote two volumes of memoir/autobiography, Adventures of a Novelist (1932) and My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography (1946).
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- Populariteit
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