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+Mary Raymond s.h.i.+pman Andrews+--(+Mrs. William Shankland Andrews+)--short-story writer, novelist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*The Perfect Tribute. 1906.
The Militants. 1907.
*The Lifted Bandage. 1910.
The Counsel a.s.signed. 1912.
The Marshal. 1912.
The Three Things. 1915.
Joy in the Morning. 1919.
His Soul Goes Marching On. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 27 ('08): 155.
Nation, 85 ('07): 58.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1912, 1915, 1919.
+Mary Antin (Mrs. Amadeus W. Grabau)+--writer.
Born at Polotzk, Russia, 1881. Came to America in 1894. Educated in American schools. Studied at Teachers' College, Columbia, 1901-2, and at Barnard College, 1902-4.
Her second book attracted attention for its fresh and sympathetic treatment of the experiences of immigrants coming to this country.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
From Polotzk to Boston. 1899.
*The Promised Land. 1912.
They Who Knock at Our Gates. 1914.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Acad. 83 ('12): 637.
Am. M. 77 ('14): Mar., p. 64 (portrait).
Bookm. 35 ('12): 584.
J. Educ. 81 ('15): 91.
Lond. Times, Oct. 10, 1912: 420.
Outlook, 104 ('13): 473 (portrait).
+Walter Conrad Arensberg+--poet.
Ill.u.s.trates in his _Poems_, 1914, and _Idols_, 1916, conversion from the old forms of verse to the new. Cf. also _Others_, 1916.
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 t.i.tle _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.).
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