“The Bell in the Fog” is the tale of an author who buys a country estate. Along with the property come a furnished house — and, of course, two paintings. They are paintings of a young boy and girl, siblings who died in childhood. When Orth, the author, sees these paintings, they begin to haunt his every thought until they finally become flesh and bone.
The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England. It was not so much the good American’s reverence for ancestors that inspired the longing to consort with the ghosts of an ancient line, as artistic appreciation of the mellowness, the dignity, the aristocratic aloofness of walls that have sheltered, and furniture that has embraced, generations and generations of the dead.
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, born October 30, 1857 and died June 14, 1948. She was an American writer. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestselling novel Black Oxen 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.
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First Published 1905
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