CALIFORNIA'S WOMEN AUTHORS

    In response to a recent query, I've compiled a list of the fiction I've read by women writers and updated it here. Most are novels, though a few short story collections are included. All have California settings and were written between 1890 and 1959. Those I haven't yet reviewed have an asterisk next to the date. To find the reviews go to the sidebar and either have Google search the site or (in most cases) click on the author or publication date lists. This list is fairly comprehensive in its coverage of authors of serious fiction. All of their works are not included, however. Writers of romances and mysteries are underrepresented. (And please forgive the wavy indentation line.) Go to the update.

Albert, Katherine                   “Invasion of Privacy, An” (1948) 

Albert, Katherine                   Remember Valerie March (1939)

Allen, Jane                            I Lost My Girlish Laughter (1938)

Armstrong, Charlotte             Dram of Poison, A (1956)

Atherton, Gertrude                American Wives and English Husbands (1898)*

Atherton, Gertrude                Avalanche, The: A Mystery Story (1919)

Austin, Mary                          Ford, The (1917)*

Austin, Mary                          Santa Lucia (1908)

Baker, Dorothy                      Trio (1943)

Baker, Dorothy                      Young Man with a Horn (1938)*

Baldwin, Faith                       Enchanted Oasis (1938)

Bangert, Ethel E.                   Her Best Man (1943)

Benson, Stella                       Poor Man, The (1922)

Bentham, Josephine              Bright Avenues (1928)

Bentham, Josephine              Outsiders (1929)

Brackett, Leigh                      No Good from a Corpse (1944)

Bristow, Gwen                       Tomorrow Is Forever (1943)

Burnham, Clara Louise           Leaven of Love, The (1908)

Cameron, Eleanor                  Unheard Music, The (1950)

Charles, Frances                    Siege of Youth, The (1903)

Child, Nellise                         If I Come Home (1943)

Cornell, Hughes                     Born Rich (1924)

Cornell, Hughes                     Marketing Deb (1926)

Crum, Gertrude Bosworth      Strumpet Wind (1938)

Delmar, Viña                          About Mrs. Leslie (1950)

Delmar, Viña                          “Hollywood Dynasty” (1939)

Dix, Beulah Marie                  Pity of God (1932)

Foote, Mary Hallock               Valley Road, The (1915)

Forbes, Kathryn                     Mama’s Bank Account (1943)

Forbes, Kathryn                     Transfer Point (1947)

Harraden, Beatrice                Hilda Strafford (1897)

Hobart, Alice Tisdale             Cleft Rock, The (1948)

Holland, Marty                       Glass Heart, The (1946)

Hornblow, Leonora                Memory and Desire (1950)

Hughes, Dorothy                    In a Lonely Place (1947)

Jackson, Shirley                     Road through the Wall, The (1948)

Jessey, Cornelia                    Teach the Angry Spirit (1949)

Johnson, Gladys                    Desire (1929)

Johnson, Gladys                    Late September (1932)

Kramer, Martin                      Sons of the Fathers (1959)

Lambert, Alice Elinor             Hospital Nocturne (1932)

Lane, Rose Wilder                  Diverging Roads (1919)

Lasswell, Mary                       Suds in Your Eye (1942)

Lederer, Virginia                   Married at Leisure (1944)

Lewis, Janet                          Against a Darkening Sky (1943)

Loomis, Rae                          Luisita (1954)

Loomis, Rae                          Marina Street Girls, The (1953)

Lubou, Haynes                       Reckless Hollywood (1932)

Lynde, H. H.                          Adversary, The (1957)

Lyon, Dana                            Tentacles, The (1950)

Marble, M. S.                         Die by Night (1947)

Marion, Frances                     Valley People (1935)

Martin, Nell                           Lovers Should Marry (1933)

McKee, Ruth Eleanor              Under One Roof (1936)

Michelson, Miriam                  Anthony Overman (1906)

Michelson, Miriam                  Yellow Journalist, A (1905)

Millar, Margaret                     Do Evil in Return (1950)

Millar, Margaret                     Wives and Lovers (1954)

Mitchell, Ruth Comfort          Play the Game! (1921)

Myers, Virginia                      Escape from Morales (1953)

Nielsen, Helen                       Woman on the Roof, The (1954)

Parkhurst, Genevieve             Headlong (1931)

Peattie, Louise Redfield         Lost Daughter (1938)

Roberts, Marjorie                  Webs in the Sky (1940)

Roberts, Marta                      Tumbleweeds (1940)

Rolfs, Mary Jane                    No Vacancy (1951)

Rosmanith, Olga                    Picture People (1934)

Salzscheider, F. Lucie            Pandora (1901)

Sela, Lora                              Push-Over (1958)

Shaw, Wilene                        Out for Kicks (1959)

Shedd, Margaret                    Return to the Beach (1950)

Shedd, Margaret                    Run (1956)

Shiras, Wilmar H.                   Children of the Atom (1953)

Simpson, Lola Jean                Back Fire (1927)

Spadoni, Adriana                   Noise of the World, The (1921)

Speare, Dorothy                    Road to Needles, The (1937)

St. Johns, Adela Rogers          Free Soul, A (1927)

Stewart, Ramona                   Desert Town (1946)

Stine, Buena Vista                 Not a Joy Forever (1945)

Turnbull, Margaret                 Close-Up, The (1918)

Van Der Veer, Judy                November Grass (1940)

West, Jessamyn                     Cress Delahanty (1954)*

Wiggin, Kate                         Marm Lisa (1896)

Wilhelm, Gale                       No Letters for the Dead (1936)*

Wilhelm, Gale                       Time Between, The (1942)*

Wilhelm, Gale                       Torchlight to Valhalla (1938)*

Wilhelm, Gale                       We Too Are Drifting (1935)*

Williams, Mona                      Marriage, The (1958)

Wolf, Alice S.                        House of Cards, A (1896)

Wolf, Emma                          Other Things Being Equal (1892)

Wolff, Maritta                       Big Nickelodeon, The (1956)*

Comments

[mae]

Thanks, that looks great! I've also remembered a more recent book "When the Emperor was divine" about a Calif. Japanese family's experience in the 1940s interment camp. Maybe not enough IN CA though, for your definition. I'm documenting my project on my blog:
maetravels.blogspot.com

[Don Napoli]

There are also many more recent women writers, such as Alice Adams, Joan Didion, Diane Johnson and Carolyn See. I'll be interested in following your literary journey.