Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gertrude Atherton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Black Oxen

Appendix A: Age and the Body

1. From George F. Corners, Rejuvenation: How Steinach Makes People Young (1923)
2. From Eugen Steinach, Sex and Life: Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments (1940)
3. From Gertrude Atherton, “Second Youth” (8 July 1939)
4. Readers’ Letters to Atherton

Appendix B: Theories of Cultural Change in the 1920s

1. From Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans, The Companionate Marriage (1927)
2. From Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (1931)
3. From Floyd Dell, Love in the Machine Age: A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society (1930)

Appendix C: The Flapper and the Other Generations

1. E.L. Aultman, “What Is a ‘Flapper’?” Los Angeles Times (1 March 1922)
2. Helen Bullitt Lowry, “Mrs. Grundy and Miss 1921,” New York Times (23 January 1921)
3. Alma Whitaker, “Exit Flapper; Enter the Mysterious Woman of Thirty,” Los Angeles Times (23 July 1922)

Appendix D: Reviews of the Novel and the Film

1. Carl Van Vechten, “A Lady Who Defies Time,” The Nation (14 February 1923)
2. “The New Curiosity Shop, Black Oxen,” The Literary Review (7 July 1923)
3. “First National’s Black Oxen Plays to Capacity Business,” Moving Picture World (19 January 1924)
4. Frank Elliott, “Black Oxen, Frank Lloyd, First National,” Motion Picture News (5 January 1924)

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