Alice French

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Alice French (March 19, 1850 - January 9, 1934), better known as Octave Thanet, was an American novelist.

She was born at Andover, Massachusetts, a daughter of George Henry and Frances Wood French, and began her literary career about 1878 with studies of a social and economic bent, but soon turned to short stories, especially after her removal to the West. Iowa and Arkansas gave her opportunities for exploiting regions hitherto little attempted in fiction. Her novel Expiation (1890), won high praise.

French's mother, Frances, was the daughter of Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton.

Partial bibliography

• The Bishop's Vagabond 1884)
• Knitters in the Sun (1887)
• Otto the Knight (1893)
• A Book of True Lovers (1898)
• The Best Letters of Mary Wortley Montagu (1901) (editor)
• The Man of the Hour (1905)
• Stories That End Well (1911)
• A Step on the Stair (1913)

References

External links

• Works by Octave Thanet at Internet Archive
• Works by Alice French at Project Gutenberg (as Octave Thanet)

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