Never for one moment had she known the joys of freedom, of love, of individuality. To-day she wished she had married any clod in her native village that had been good enough to address her. Youth and hope and spirit had dribbled away, but she had stayed, and stayed. The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton is a short story about Weigall, an English aristocrat from Yorkshire pondering the loss of his missing friend Wyatt.

In today’s tale The Striding Place, by Gertrude Atherton we take a dip in what many have described as the deadliest river in the world. Hello, and welcome to Thrilling Tales, Seattle Public Library’s Storytime for Grownups. She had come full of youth and spirit and hope. Virtual Thrilling Tales: The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Miss Webster needed a companion and housekeeper there would be no salary, but a comfortable home and clothes that she could feel she had earned. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Octo June 14, 1948) was an American author. For what had she stayed? Had there been an unadmitted hope that these old people must soon die and leave her with an independence with which she could travel and live? She loved Miss Webster, and she had gladly responded to her invitation to leave the New England village, where she was dependent on the charity of relatives, and make her home in the new country. She was revolving a problem-a problem she had revolved many times before. So she had sat many times, feeling youth slip by her, lifting her bitter protest against the monotony and starvation of her existence, yet too timid and ignorant to start forth in search of life. So she had sat the night of her arrival at Webster Hall, then a girl of eighteen and dreams. Webster down-stairs, through the trees at the rain. Born in California, Gertrude attended schools in California and Kentucky and became widely read. The companion was sitting on the edge of the bed in her small ascetic chamber, staring, like Dr. Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) was an American novelist, short story writer and early feminist.

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