The Aristocrats; Being the Impressions of the Lady Helen Pole During Her Sojourn in the Great North Woods as Spontaneously Recorded in Her Letters to ... North Britain, the Countess of Edge and Ross

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. 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. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial.