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Inez Haynes Gillmore
Inez Haynes Gillmore was an American feminist author and activist, born in 1873. She is best known for her novel "Angel Island" (1914), a pioneering feminist fantasy that explores gender dynamics through the story of men encountering a society of winged women. Gillmore was a founding member of the feminist organization, the National Women's Party, and also wrote extensively about women's suffrage. Additionally, her work included numerous novels and children's books, such as the "Phoebe and Ernest" series, reflecting her commitment to both literary creativity and social change.
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I It was the morning after the shipwreck. The five men still lay where they had slept. A long time had passed since anybody had spoken. A long time had passed since anybody had moved. Indeed, it, looked almost as if they would never speak or move again. So bruised and bloodless of skin were they, so bleak and sharp of feature, so stark and hollow of eye, so rigid and moveless of limb that they might...
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CHAPTER I THE RIDE Four people sat in the big, shining automobile. Three of them were men. The fourth was a little girl. The little girl’s name was Maida Westabrook. The three men were “Buffalo” Westabrook, her father, Dr. Pierce, her physician, and Billy Potter, her friend. They were coming from Marblehead to Boston. Maida sat in one corner of the back seat gazing dreamily out at the whirling...
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California, which produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather; California, which grows the biggest men, trees, vegetables and fleas in the world, and the most beautiful women, babies, flowers and fruits; California, which, on the side, delivers a yearly crop of athletes, boxers, tennis players, swimmers, runners and a yearly crop of geniuses, painters, sculptors, architects, authors,...
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THE NATIVE SON The only drawback to writing about California is that scenery and climate—and weather even—will creep in. Inevitably anything you produce sounds like a cross between a railroad folder and a circus program. You can't discuss the people without describing their background; for they reflect it perfectly; or their climate, because it has helped to make them the superb beings they...
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