Gertrude Atherton

The Tower of Ivory follows Margaret Hill, a singer whose talent attracts Al Levering. He rescues her from the notorious dive in which she is performing...

Atherton wrote Patience Sparhawk and Her Times, A Novel in 1897, but it proved too controversial. In 1898, and John Lane of The Bodley Head agreed to...

Atherton had spent many years in Germany and still had friends there, but her initial sympathy for Germany in 1914 was erased by the German attack on the...

"This is a most amusing little story of what we may call the “genteel farce” kind. Mrs. Pendleton, who has been a pronounced flirt in her married life,...

Hermia Suydam is another of Atherton's controversial works, deemed immoral by London critics.

The book gives, perhaps, the most vivid and coherent account in literature of the Suffragette Movement in England, written with an insight and sympathy that...

Runtime: 15 minutesIn Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place, the concept of identity and a lonely death are addressed. Weigall remembers talking with Wyatt...

Drawing her title from George Sterling's poem "Into a crystal cup the dusky wine I pour" Atherton begins her exploration of Freudian theories, disecting...