A Daughter Of The Vine

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We are made known to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the night of his coming in California. At a social gathering, he is presented to many beautiful ladies, such as the attractive Nina Randolph. Dudley Thorpe falls in love with Nina Randolph but Dudley doubts that Nina does not feel the same way about him. She seems to be closing her heart on love but she is certainly in love with Dudley. Is she hiding a secret from him? Will her secret change Dudley’s feelings about her? Who will help her when she needs someone? Dudley or her hateful cousin, Richard Clough? And what will the society of San Francisco create of it all?

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a distinguished and successful American writer. A number of her stories are situated in her residence state of California. Her most famous Black Oxen was rendered into a silent film of the same title. She also penned short literature, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on many subjects such as feminism, politics, and war. She was determined, free-minded, and at times provocative.

Gertrude Franklin Horn was born in San Francisco, California, to Thomas Ludovich Horn and his wife, the previous Gertrude Franklin. Her parents divorced when she was at an early age of 2, and she was taken cared by her mother’s grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a pious Presbyterian and a relative of Benjamin Franklin. Grandfather Franklin persevered she be educated, and this shaped her immensely. She studied at St. Mary’s Hall high school in Benicia, California, and, shortly at the Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky.

Gertrude’s first novel was The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance, episodic in The Argonaut using the fictional name Asmodeus. When she opened to her family that she was the writer, it made her to be detested. She then moved to New York, sending off Muriel with her grandmother.
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