Eloped with the son of Faxon Atherton, a wealthy merchant and namesake of the town. Stifled by motherhood and ranch life, she embarked on a successful writing career after her husband's death. Among her best received works were the novels The Californians, A Daughter of the Vine, The Conqueror, and The Splendid, Idle Forties. Several novels were thinly disguised accounts of local society.
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