6-662: Alice French House may refer to: Alice French House (Clover Bend, Arkansas) , formerly listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Lawrence County Alice French House (Davenport, Iowa) , NRHP-listed, in Scott County See also [ edit ] French House (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-605: A local newspaper in 1871 and by the 1880s she was being published in The Atlantic and Harper’s . She wrote under the pen name Octave Thanet and her stories became popular in the 1890s and early 1900s. French, along with her widowed friend Jane Allen Crawford, spent their winters at Clover Bend Plantation in Lawrence County, Arkansas from 1883 to 1909. French expanded on the regionalist themes she started in Iowa with stories about
18-458: The Black River . It was a three-story, fifteen room house, and its name is a combination of Alice French's (Thanet, from her pen name) and June Allen Crawford's last names. The estate was landscaped with shrubs imported from England. The stables housed fine horses and an elegant carriage. The house was the setting for their literary and social activities. French's study was on the top floor of
24-508: The people in the Clover Bend area. She used the poor black and white sharecroppers as the subjects for her stories. As literary tastes changed French's work fell out of favor. She abandoned writing and took up social work. She died in Davenport in 1934. French and Crawford originally lived in a cabin on the plantation. It was destroyed in a fire in 1895 and they built Thanford in 1896 along
30-548: The title Alice French House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_French_House&oldid=877669562 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alice French House (Clover Bend, Arkansas) The Alice French House , also known as Thanford ,
36-553: Was an historic house located near Clover Bend, Arkansas , United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The house was destroyed by fire in 1986, and was removed from the register in 2002. Born in Andover, Massachusetts , Alice French was five when her family moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855. She became the first writer from Iowa with a national reputation. Her first short story appeared in
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