Halsey. (Women.)
Harkins. (Women.)
Overton.
Pattee.
Atlan. 83 ('99): 665.
Bk. Buyer, 8 ('91): 53 (portrait); 23 ('01): 379.
Bookm. 24 ('06): 20 (portrait).
Bookm. (Lond.) 24 ('06): 20 (portrait).
Bk. News, 11 ('93): 227.
Citizen, 4 ('98): 27.
Critic, 20 ('92): 13; 22 ('93): 256 (portrait); 32 ('98): 155
(portraits).
Harp. W. 47 ('03): 1879; 49 ('05): 1940. (Portraits.)
+Alice French ("Octave Thanet")+--novelist.
Born at Andover, Massachusetts, and educated at Abbott Academy there;
Litt. D., University of Iowa, 1911.
Upon going to live in the Middle West, Miss French became interested in
the local color of Iowa and Arkansas and in the labor conditions with
which she came in contact as a member of a family of manufacturers. The
sociological and propagandist elements are strong in her work.