Gertrude Atherton

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Gertrude Atherton (1904)

Gertrude Franklin Atherton (birth name: Gertrude Franklin Horn ) (born October 30, 1857 in San Francisco , California , † June 14, 1948 there ) was an American writer .

Life

After attending St. Mary's Hall High School in Benicia , she married George Henry Bowen Atherton on February 14, 1876, and began her writing career in 1886, a year before her husband's death. Her son George died young of diphtheria , so she had to care for her daughter Muriel Florence Atherton alone.

She made her literary debut in 1886 with the novel Glimpses Of Three Coasts , which was followed by the novels The Californians (1899), A Daughter of the Vine (1899) and the life story of Alexander Hamilton under the title The Conqueror (1902). Then appeared the novels Rezanov (1906), The Ancestors (1907) and her best-known work Black Oxen (1923). She also wrote scripts for the film actor John Bowers .

She published her memoir in 1932 under the title The Adventures of a Novelist .

In 1938 she was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Her other novels and publications, in which she often dealt with her Californian homeland, include:

  • What Dreams May Come (1888)
  • Cerritos (1890)
  • Death and the Woman ( Short Stories , 1892)
  • The Doomswoman (1895)
  • The Striding Place (Short Stories, 1896)
  • American Wives and English Husbands (1898)
  • The Valiant Runaways (1898)
  • Senator North (1900)
  • The Aristocrats (1901)
  • The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California (Short Stories, 1902)
  • Mrs. Pendleton's Four-In-Hand (1903)
  • Rulers of Kings (1904)
  • The Traveling Thirds (1905)
  • The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories (short stories, 1905)
  • Tower of Ivory (1910)
  • Julia France and Her Times (1912)
  • Perch of the Devil (1914)
  • Before the Gringo Came (1915)
  • Mrs. Balfame (1916)
  • The Living Present: French Women in WWI (non-fiction book, 1917)
  • The White Morning (1918)
  • The Avalanche (1919)
  • The Sisters-in-Law (1921)
  • Sleeping Fires (1922)
  • The Crystal Cup (1925)
  • The Gorgeous Isle (1927)
  • The Immortal Marriage (1927)
  • The Jealous Gods (1928)
  • Dido, Queen of Hearts (1929)
  • The Sophisticates (1931)
  • The Foghorn (short stories, 1934)
  • Golden Peacock (1936)
  • California, an Intimate History (non-fiction, 1936)
  • Can women be gentlemen? (Non-fiction book, 1938)
  • The House of Lee (1940)
  • The Horn Of Life (1942)
  • Golden Gate Country (non-fiction, 1945)
  • My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography (non-fiction, 1946)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members: Gertrude Atherton. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Atherton, Gertrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (full name); Horn, Gertrude Franklin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1948
Place of death San Francisco , California