In an 1899 article for London's Bookman, Atherton wrote of Wilde's style and associated it with 'the decadence, the loss of virility that must follow over-civilization. She recalled in her memoir Adventures of a Novelist (1932) that she made an excuse to avoid the meeting because she thought he was physically repulsive. In London, she had the opportunity through Jane Wilde to meet Oscar Wilde, her son. William Sharp wrote in The Spectator praising her fiction and would later invite Atherton to stay with him and his wife, Elizabeth, in South Hampstead. Routledge and Sons that they would publish her first two books. That year, she heard from British publisher G. In 1889, she went to Paris at the invitation of her sister-in-law Alejandra Rathbone (married to Major Jared Lawrence Rathbone). Atherton's first novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. Written in 1896, Gertrude Athertons The Striding place is both an intriguing meditation on the souls destiny after death as well as a chilling ghost story. She traveled to London, and eventually returned to California. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother. Bolton Strid is one of England’s most dangerous waterways His mother was so grieved by her loss that she donated the surrounding land to a community of Augustinian monks to pray for her son’s soul. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. Atherton's first publication was 'The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance,' serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial.

In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. Her best-seller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (OctoJune 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California. The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896.

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