Alice French, under the pseudonym Octave Thanet, was a leading writer of local color stories and journalistic essays whose work was published in such national periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper s, Scribner s Magazine, and Century Magazine.
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For the February 1994 issue of Sight and Sound, we spoke to director Gurinder Chadha about the politics, comedy and Englishness of her seaside-set debut feature.