Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer.
She is best remembered for her California Series, several novels and short stories dealing with the social history of California. The series includes The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton; and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel Black Oxen (1923), about an aging woman who miraculously becomes young again after glandular therapy.
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