Talk:Gertrude Atherton

editing
Please have somebody go over this article with you and fix such clumsy wording as "The year 1898 saw her complete The Californians, her first novel in the post-Spanish era. Critics received this much more than Patience and a review in the The Spectator in the October 1, 1898..." What does "in the post-Spanish era" mean? By 1898 the Spanish had not been in control of California for some decades and Atherton was born after their era ended. Further critics do not receive a piece of writing "much more", that is an incomplete comparison. Much more WHAT? 4.249.63.13 (talk) 22:00, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Clean up
I removed this large chunk of text from the article; saving it here in case someone wants to fix the grammar and citation issues and reincorporate it. --Nonmodernist (talk) 03:03, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Another one of her more well known novels is Mrs. Balfame which was published in 1916, and it was even made into a movie in 1917. Mrs. Balfame was the first of Miss Atherton's novels to be made into a movie. Mrs Balfame is a soon to be empowered women who is tired of her always drunken husband. She goes to a conference in her town where one of her friend speaks about the destruction that men cause on society. They blame the occurrence of World War I on men and mention how much better society would be if it were strictly ran by women. After the meeting, the speaker, Dr. Steuer, shows Mrs. Balfame about an untraceable poison. Mrs. Balfame retrieves the poison and puts it in her husbands drink, but she sees her husband wandering outside and ends up shooting him. To save Mrs. Balfame, Dr. Struer confesses to the murder since she is deathly ill, and Mrs. Balfame lives the rest of her life alone in independence. In May of 1916, the same year the novel was released, Wilkinson Sherren gave a new insight into the novel. Although Mrs. Balfame appears to be a murderer in the novel, Wilkinson claims her killing is completely justified. He relates Mrs. Balfame's relationship with her husband to that of the Allies and the Central Powers from World War I. By this, he claims that death of Mr. Balfame is immanent and rational due to the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Balfame were essentially in a state of war with each other. This comparison is definitely in context with the novel because like it states earlier, the women in the novel blame World War I on the men.

She was a white supremacist??
Source?? 71.114.24.156 (talk) 03:56, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

There is a tendency to think so, as in the ‘Harriet’ character in “Senator North”. Many progressive types had such ideas. 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:A15C:84AB:B020:D541 (talk) 09:24, 17 December 2022 (UTC)