Alice French
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Works by Alice French
(1850-1934)
| 1887 | Knitters in the Sun. The first of French's local-color treatments of rural Arkansas, written under the pen name "Octave Thanet." This collection of stories, published in periodicals throughout the 1880s, highlights the author's artistic range, including the fantastical stories "The Ogre of Ha Ha Bay" and "Schopenhauer on Lake Pepin," the dialect tales "Ma' Bowlin'" and "Whitsun Harp, Regulator," and the stories of domestic realism "Mrs. Finlay's Elizabethan Chair" and "Father Quinnailon's Convert." The collection would be followed by Stories of a Western Town (1893), The Missionary Sheriff (1879), The Captured Dream (1899), and Stories That End Well (1911). |
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