Books with title The California People

What is known as the "Ellis Island of the West"? How has the population of California changed over the years? You can find the answers to these questions in 'People of California.' This book contains fascinating stories of the many different people who have made California what it is today. You will learn about the different cultural groups found in California. You will also find out more about California's most famous residents.

Who were the first people to live in California? Which Californians became famous, and why? This book contains fascinating stories of the many different people who have made California what it is today. You will find information about the first people of California and the settlers who came later. You'll also learn about the different cultural groups found in California.

Renowned for her realistic, intricate portraits of human relationships, Gertrude Atherton's The Californians unfolds against the backdrop of the author's native state as it entered a period of rapid change and diversification. The novel incorporates the contrasting viewpoints of two young girls—both California residents, but still worlds apart—as they navigate the road to adulthood.

The Californians-Gertrude Atherton In 1898, she completed The Californians, her first novel in set the post-Spanish era. Critics received this much more positively than Patience, and a review in The Spectator (October 1, 1898) said it "was by far more convincing and attractive in delineating California manners and morals.... The novel fairly establishes her claim to be considered as one of the most vivid and entertaining interpreters of the complex characters of emancipated American womanhood." Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. The Californians- Macmillan's standard library- Author- Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton- Length 351 pages - Publisher Grosset & Dunlap, 1909 --- Vintage- -3rd printing last date March 1909 additional copyright 1898 printed by Norwood press Berwick Smith Company- Norwood Massachusetts USA 351 pages -along with another 12 to 14 of advertisements for other offerings by publisher, quite interesting. - Aquarian book- --Atherton was often compared to contemporary authors such as Henry James and Edith Wharton. James assessed Atherton's work and claimed she had reduced the typical man/woman relationship to a personality clash. Atherton presided in her last years over the San Francisco branch of PEN, an international organization of poets, essayists, novelists and playwrights founded in England with John Galsworthy as its first president. As her biographer Emily Wortis Leider notes in California's Daughter, however, "under her domination it became little more than a social club that might have been called Friends of Atherton and (Senator) Phelan". A strong advocate of social reform, and the grande dame of California literature,

Who were the first people to live in California? Which Californians became famous, and why? This book contains fascinating stories of the many different people who have made California what it is today. You will find information about the first people of California and the settlers who came later. You'll also learn about the different cultural groups found in California.

Renowned for her realistic, intricate portraits of human relationships, Gertrude Atherton's The Californians unfolds against the backdrop of the author's native state as it entered a period of rapid change and diversification. The novel incorporates the contrasting viewpoints of two young girls—both California residents, but still worlds apart—as they navigate the road to adulthood.