For studies, cf. Untermeyer; also _Dial_, 69 ('20): 61 _Poetry_, 8 ('16): 208. +Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Mrs. George H. Bowen Atherton)+--novelist. Born at San Francisco, 1859. Great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in private schools. Has lived much abroad. Mrs. Atherton's work is very uneven, but is interesting as reflecting different aspects of social and political life in this country. BIBLIOGRAPHY The Doomswoman. 1892. Patience Sparhawk and Her Times. 1897. *American Wives and English Husbands. 1898. (Revised edition, 1919; under the title _Transplanted_.) The Californians. 1898. *Senator North. 1900. The Aristocrats. 1901. *The Conqueror. 1902. The Splendid Idle Forties. 1902. Rezanov. 1906. *Ancestors. 1907. Perch of the Devil. 1914. California--an Intimate History. 1914. The White Morning. 1918. Sisters-in-law. 1921. Sleeping Fires. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Cooper. Courtney, W.L. The Feminine Note in Fiction. 1904. Halsey. (Women.) Harkins. (Women.) Underwood. Bookm. 12 ('01): 541, 542 (portrait); 30 ('09): 356. Forum, 58 ('17): 585. +Mary Hunter Austin (Mrs. Stafford W. Austin)+--novelist, dramatist. Born at Carlinville, Illinois, 1868. At the age of nineteen went to live in California. B.S., Blackburn University, 1888. Lived on the edge of the Mohave Desert where she is said to have worked like an Indian woman, housekeeping and gardening. Studied the desert, its form, its weather, its lights, its plants. Also studied Indian lore extensively, contributing the chapter on Aboriginal Literature to the _Cambridge History of American Literature_ (IV [Later National Literature, III], 610ff.). BIBLIOGRAPHY The Land of Little Rain. 1903. *The Basket Woman: Fanciful Tales for Children. 1904. Isidro. 1905. The Flock. 1906. Santa Lucia. 1908. Lost Borders. 1909. *The Arrow Maker. 1911. (Play.) (Also in _Drama_, 1915.) *A Woman of Genius. 1912. The Green Bough. 1913. The Lovely Lady. 1913. Love and the Soul-Maker. 1914. The Man Jesus. 1915. The Ford. 1917. Outland. 1919. (Originally published under the pseudonym, "Gordon Stairs," London, 1910.) No. 26 Jayne Street. 1920. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Overton. Am. M. 72 ('11): 178 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 586 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 698 (portrait.) Freeman, 1 ('20): 311. New Repub. 24 ('20): 151. R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 241 (portrait). Review, 3 ('20): 73. Sunset, 43 ('19): 49 (portrait). +Irving (Addison) Bacheller+ (New York, 1859)--novelist. His outstanding books are: Eben Holden. 1900. A Man for the Ages. 1919. (Lincoln, the hero.) For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_. +Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon)+--novelist. Born at Stamford, Connecticut, 1876. A.B., Smith College, 1898. Mrs. Bacon has made a special study of child life. BIBLIOGRAPHY