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...HOUSE OF LEE-Gertrude Atherton-Appleton-Century...
...Between Men and Women, foreseen by the mad fancy of James Thurber, comes to pass, Gertrude Atherton will be the Stonewall Jackson of the rebel females. The House of Lee, a tale of a girl of 22, her mother of 40, her grandmother of 60, is not so noteworthy because of its strident feminism as because of its rampant, 82-year-old author...
Eight years after the gold rush, Gertrude Franklin Horn was born in San Francisco of a drunken father, a hysterical mother. At 17, gay, giddy Gertrude eloped with one of her divorced mother's suitors, sulky, jealous, half-Spanish George Atherton, who had Spanish ideas on the subjugation of women. When he died in 1887 and was shipped home from Chile in a barrel of rum, his young widow had learned little respect for men or for marriage...
When she began writing, her mother-in-law insisted, "I no believe the womens can write. If all were known, you find the mens write those books for them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a low, unladylike profession. Her first novel was the scandal of California society in 1892. She was probably the first refined U. S. female to smoke a cigaret in public: women fainted, men boiled, editors sizzled, preachers raged...
Alfred L. Atherton, Jr., William P. Bartlett, William E. Bright III, Jerry M. Brown, Gregory N. Bruxelles, Norbert T. Byrnes, Francis Henry Caskin III, Herbert H. Caswell, Jr., Robert W. Clifford, Leonard Cummings, Paul F. Delahoyde, Robert E. Desautels, John W. Ellison, John D. Eusden, John C. Faulkner III, Dan II. Fenn, Jr., John W. Frenning, Ralph M. Golfstein, Daniel Gorenstein, Donald Harting, Walter S. Hayward, Jr., Thomas T. Hoffman, Richard A. Houghton, William C. Howard, Joseph M. Hurley...