Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . which traces back toMassachusetts Bay colonists. Her fatherwent West for his health, and settled inDavenport, Iowa; keeping in touch with the East, however, by annual visits to the Massachusetts coast andsojourns in Boston. Alice was graduated at Andover Academy. Herearly tastes in reading were historical, and she began by writing onsocial and economic themes. Her first story to attract attention was< The Bishops Vagabond, in the Atlantic Monthly; a South Carolinawatering-place sketch, which contains a salient bit of characterizat
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . which traces back toMassachusetts Bay colonists. Her fatherwent West for his health, and settled inDavenport, Iowa; keeping in touch with the East, however, by annual visits to the Massachusetts coast andsojourns in Boston. Alice was graduated at Andover Academy. Herearly tastes in reading were historical, and she began by writing onsocial and economic themes. Her first story to attract attention was< The Bishops Vagabond, in the Atlantic Monthly; a South Carolinawatering-place sketch, which contains a salient bit of characterizationhumorously presented, yet with strong undercurrents of pathos andtragedy, and which proved the forerunner of many which revealed toher and her public the true scope and nature of her powers. Miss French passes her winters on her plantation. Clover Bend,on the Black River, in Arkansas; and it is there that she has madethe careful studies of the native life upon which her tales arc scenery, the characters, and even the incidents, in some of her. Octave Thanet -TTJ^j, octave thanet 14734 fiction, are direct transcripts of what she has seen and heard, ideal-ized by the artist touch. The pseudonym «Octave Thanet» is inderivation a curious composite: the first of the two names is that ofa school room-mate, the second was discovered on the side of a pass-ing freight-car. Miss Frenchs first collection of short stories was (1884): and it has been followed by a novel (1890);<Otto the Knight, and other Trans-Mississippi Stories^ (1891); <WeKW another novel (1891); ii^9l^> ^AnAdventure in Photography, > a practical treatise on amateur picture-taking (1893); and <The Missionary Sheriff,^ in which the West insteadof the Southwest is depicted,—the tales being laid in Iowa andIllinois. The authors growth, from the lurid massing of horrors in<Expiation,* — an Arkansas war-tale of the most grewsome sort,—tothe later short stories, witlibraryofworldsbe37warn
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