Author:Gertrude Atherton
American writer of novels, short stories, articles and essays, on such issues as feminism, politics, and war.Many of her novels are set in her home state of California
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "G. A.*"
Works[edit]
- What Dreams May Come (1888)
- The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California (1893)
- Patience Sparhawk and her Times
- The Valiant Runaways (1898)
- Senator North (1900)
- The Conqueror: Being the true and romantic story of Alexander Hamilton (1902)
- The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California (1902)
- The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories (1905)
- The Traveling Thirds (1905; novella, in the Short Stories)
- Rezanov (1906)
- Perch of the Devil (1914)
- The Living Present (1917)
- The White Morning. A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime (1918)
- The Avalanche (1919)
- The Sisters-In-Law: A novel of our times (1921)
- Sleeping Fires (1922)
- Black Oxen (1923)
Individual short stories[edit]
- The Bell in the Fog (1905)
- Death and the Woman (1892)
- A Monarch of a Small Survey (1905, in The Smart Set, vol 4)
- The Striding Place (1896)
- The Sacrificial Altar (1916)
Articles[edit]
- "Rezánov, Nicolai Petrovich de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Works about Atherton[edit]
- "Atherton, Gertrude Franklin," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
- "Atherton, Gertrude Franklin," in The Biographical Dictionary of America (pp. 158-159), by Rossiter Johnson, Boston: American Historical Society (1906)
- Review of 'Perch of the Devil' in Punch Magazine (September 30th 1914).
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1948, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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