There was no Burlingame in the Sixties, the Western Addition was a desert of sand dunes and the goats gambolled through the rocky gulches of Nob Hill. But San Francisco had its Rincon Hill and South Park, Howard and Fulsom and Harrison Streets, coldly aloof from the tumultuous hot heart of the City north of Market Street.
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"...a brilliant, very unusual woman, a woman with a clear and capable brain" -- New York Times Book Review, 1932
"Caring little for convention, [Mrs. Atherton] ... usually produces original and striking novels" -- Los Angeles Times, 1922 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Caring little for convention, [Mrs. Atherton] ... usually produces original and striking novels" -- Los Angeles Times, 1922 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Gertrude Atherton became California's first successful woman author by breaking all the rules. Beginning in 1883, when only men were professional writers, she earned a living with her pen. She aggressively sought publicity before such behavior was proper. And she told stories about upper-class women in her native California when others wrote only of the Wild West.
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San Francisco, New York, Langdon Masters, Five Points, Occidental Hotel, Madeleine Talbot, Ben Travers, Alexander Groome, Howard Talbot, Sally Ballinger, Bleecker Street, Rincon Hill, South Park, Union Club, Guadalupe Hathaway, Sally Abbott, Mercantile Library, Sibyl Forbes, Barbary Coast, Dupont Street, Fifth Avenue, Lake Merritt, Maria Groome, Miss Hathaway, Montgomery Street New!
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San Francisco, New York, Langdon Masters, Five Points, Occidental Hotel, Madeleine Talbot, Ben Travers, Alexander Groome, Howard Talbot, Sally Ballinger, Bleecker Street, Rincon Hill, South Park, Union Club, Guadalupe Hathaway, Sally Abbott, Mercantile Library, Sibyl Forbes, Barbary Coast, Dupont Street, Fifth Avenue, Lake Merritt, Maria Groome, Miss Hathaway, Montgomery Street New!
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