“The Striding Place” is a short story by Gerturde Atherton. It was originally published in 1896. The story follows an Englishman named Weigall. Weigall goes on a trip to the English countryside with his best friend, Wyatt Gifford. One day, Gifford goes missing, and Weigall recalls peculiar theories that Gifford had about human souls. The story explores themes of death, nature, and humanity.
American author Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) wrote many novels and other works set in California, primarily in San Francisco. Many of her works consider themes related to the West, social ideas, and ...
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Gertrude Atherton , novelist, social historian, and journalist, reflected in her writings the evolution of American society from a double-Western point of view. She is best known for a fictionized bio...
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Gertrude Atherton 's literary reputation may rest as much on her severe criticism in the early 1900s of William Dean Howells's leadership of the "littleistic" school of American literature as on ...
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Gertrude Atherton's ambition to be a writer was fulfilled in the turbulent 1890s, the decade in which she fashioned the theme of the American West as a significant part of an evolving western European...
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Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude (Franklin Horn) Atherton