Gertrude Atherton
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
- Literature by and about Gertrude Atherton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gertrude Atherton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gertrude Atherton in nndb (English)
- Biography and works. fantasticfiction
- Biography and works. Literary Gothic
- Biography. online-literature.com
- Biography. cateweb.org
- Gertrude Atherton in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: Gertrude Atherton. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 13, 2019 .
personal data | |
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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 |