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Articles by Gertrude Atherton
Review: ‘Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories’ brings a Victorian holiday tradition back from the dead
The holiday season is a time for tradition. Folks have yearly rituals of cozying up to watch a festive movie or baking cookies in a messy kitchen. Acclaimed cartoonist Seth exposes a spooky tradition that is as old as it is bizarre in his latest series of illustrated classics. Popular in Victorian-era England, ghost stories were published in December and often read together by families around the fire to compliment the cold, dark nights.
The Year of Starting Over
The Year of Starting Over By: Karen King, Rachel Louise Miller (read by) Sample Description What if – to find yourself – you had to run away? Last year was meant to be when Holly got her happy-ever-after. But stuck in a job that’s going nowhere, and a relationship that feels more like it’s going backwards... this year Holly has decided it’s time to change her life.
Henry James’s 1904 Sordid Little Sex Farce
If you are able to withstand the near complete absence of plot, the involuted (and convoluted) sentences, and the preposterous metaphors (“she sat there in the solid chamber of her helplessness as in a bath of benevolence artfully prepared for her”)—if you’re able, in other words, to withstand Henry James, you’ll find that The Golden Bowl is a sordid little sex farce. James demands more than the usual suspension of disbelief, but his premise is original and wicked.
American Dreams, 1923: Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
1923 was the year of the first “Marathon Dance,” the endurance contest in which couples dance until they fall over from exhaustion. Miss Alma Cummings won the inaugural competition, held in New York City, after staying on her feet for twenty-seven hours. The contest quickly caught on nationally and Cummings was bested the next month by a dancer in Cleveland who lasted ninety hours and ten minutes.
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