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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer. [1] Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestselling novel Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on ...
Nancy Atherton is an American writer and author of the Aunt Dimity mystery novel series, which presently extends to twenty-five volumes. Atherton lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado . [ 1 ] [ A ]
In return, the ruler of Atherton (Lord Phineus during the time of the story) keeps the water supply to Tabletop regular. People who dwell in the Highlands are Atherton's upper class. Almost all of them reside in the House of Power, a large castle that has many courtyards filled with vegetation, giving it the appearance of having fused with nature.
The word “timely” is often used to describe novels that appear at a resonant historical moment. But when it comes to the regulation of women’s bodies and the criminalization of sex and ...
The format of the three-volume novel does not correspond closely to what would now be considered a trilogy of novels. In a time when books were relatively expensive to print and bind, publishing longer works of fiction had a particular relationship to a reading public who borrowed books from commercial circulating libraries. A novel divided ...
Historians of the novel had already identified the above five fundamental changes in the reading public before Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel in 1957. So, Watt wasn't the first to suggest the eighteenth century as the era when the novel emerged as a distinct literary form. [3] But this has not detracted from his influence. [4]
When Atherton asks the Beetle why the picture of a scarab frightened Lessingham, the Beetle denies any knowledge. Atherton threatens him, and the Beetle transforms into a scarab. When Atherton tries to capture it, the Beetle changes shape again and flees. Atherton has forgotten about the appointment and is surprised by Grayling's visit the next ...
There, she founded the "Home School for Shorthand and Typewriting" (1883), and ten years later, the "Chandler Normal Shorthand School", chiefly for the training of teachers, the first school of its kind in the U.S. In 1895, Atherton called a "Public School Shorthand Convention", the first in the history of shorthand education. Also in that year ...