Gertrude Atherton, Collection

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857 – 1948) was an American writer. She is best remembered for The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902) and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel Black Oxen (1923), about an upper middle-age woman, who miraculously becomes young again after glandular therapy. The latter was adopted into the film Black Oxen in 1923. Atherton was often compared to counterparts like Henry James and Edith Wharton. James assessed Atherton's work and he found the author had reduced the typical man/woman relationship to a personality clash.

In this ebook:

Black Oxen, 1923

The Conqueror, 1902

The Living Present, 1917

Ancestors, 1907

The Sisters-In-Law A Novel of Our Time, 1921

Mrs. Balfame, 1916

What Dreams May Come, 18898

The Avalanche: A Mystery Story, 1919

The Californians, 1898

The Valiant Runaways, 1898

Sleeping Fires, 1922

A Daughter of the Vine, 1899

Senator North, 1900

The Gorgeous Isle, 1908

The White Morning, 1918

The Doomswoman, 1892

The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California, 1902

The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories, 1905