Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)
Auteur de The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
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Œuvres de Gertrude Atherton
The Aristocrats: Being the Impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during Her Sojourn in the Great North Woods as… (1901) 10 exemplaires
The Jealous Gods: A Processional Novel of the Fifth Century, B.C. (Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 5 exemplaires
The Horn of Life 3 exemplaires
The Travelling Thirds 3 exemplaires
A Whirl Asunder 3 exemplaires
The Foghorn [short story] 3 exemplaires
A Few of Hamilton's Letters: Including His Description of the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1772 (1903) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
His Fortunate Grace 2 exemplaires
Collected Stories (HTML only) 2 exemplaires
The Bell In The Fog [short story] 2 exemplaires
Hermia Suydam 1 exemplaire
Life in the War Zone 1 exemplaire
Before the Gringo Came 1 exemplaire
The Caves of Death [short story] 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 1 exemplaire
The Premium Complete Collection of Gertrude Atherton: (Huge Collection Including Senator North, Black Oxen, Mrs.… 1 exemplaire
The Foghorn and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
JEALOUS GODS, The a Processional Novel of the Fifth Century B. C.(Concerning One Alcibiades) (1928) 1 exemplaire
In Memoriam: Charles Caldwell Dobie 1 exemplaire
The Striding-Place and Other Horror Stories 1 exemplaire
The Pearls of Loreto 1 exemplaire
Golden Peacock 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributeur — 264 exemplaires
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1916 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1916) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
San Francisco, 1906 and Before: Memories of the Older City's Splendor (1973) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Eleven American Stories — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 035 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Nom légal
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
- Date de naissance
- 1857-10-30
- Date de décès
- 1948-06-14
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
San Jose, California, USA - Professions
- freelance writer
historian
novelist
autobiographer
short story writer
feminist - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1938)
San Francisco PEN - Courte biographie
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 72
- Aussi par
- 40
- Membres
- 667
- Popularité
- #37,822
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 240
- Langues
- 2