The Sisters-In-Law

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857 - 1948) was a feminist American writer. Her husband discouraged her writing and in 1882 when she published her first novel the family was scandalized. Atherton is best remembered for her California series of novels and short stories. Her stories feature strong heroines who pursue independent careers. The Sisters-in-Law begins: "The long street rising and falling and rising again until its farthest crest high in the east seemed to brush the fading stars,...