Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)
Autore di The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
Sull'Autore
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Opere di Gertrude Atherton
The Aristocrats: Being the Impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during Her Sojourn in the Great North Woods as… (1901) 10 copie
The Jealous Gods: A Processional Novel of the Fifth Century, B.C. (Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 5 copie
The Horn of Life 3 copie
The Travelling Thirds 3 copie
A Whirl Asunder 3 copie
The Foghorn [short story] 3 copie
A Few of Hamilton's Letters: Including His Description of the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1772 (1903) — A cura di — 2 copie
His Fortunate Grace 2 copie
Collected Stories (HTML only) 2 copie
Hermia Suydam 1 copia
Life in the War Zone 1 copia
Before the Gringo Came 1 copia
The Caves of Death [short story] 1 copia
The Foghorn and Other Stories 1 copia
JEALOUS GODS, The a Processional Novel of the Fifth Century B. C.(Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 1 copia
The Pearls of Loreto 1 copia
Golden Peacock 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1916 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1916) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
San Francisco, 1906 and Before: Memories of the Older City's Splendor (1973) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Eleven American Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 035 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Nome legale
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
- Data di nascita
- 1857-10-30
- Data di morte
- 1948-06-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- San Francisco, California, USA
San Jose, California, USA - Attività lavorative
- freelance writer
historian
novelist
autobiographer
short story writer
feminist - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1938)
San Francisco PEN - Breve biografia
- 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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Statistiche
- Opere
- 72
- Opere correlate
- 40
- Utenti
- 667
- Popolarità
- #37,822
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 240
- Lingue
- 2