Black oxen
A novel about a middle-aged woman rejuvenated by a glandular operation to youthful external beauty and her romance with a younger playwright in New York and based on author's own experience of glandular treatment.
Fiction, general, United states, fiction, Nineteen twenties, Fiction, Popular culture
Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. [Wikipedia]