Further Reading
- Additional coverage of French's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 69-72; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 3, 31; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 10, 18, 60; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Popular Writers; DISCovering Author Modules: Dramatists, Novelists, Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; and Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2.
- Dunlap, Lauren Glen. "Review of The War against Women, by Marilyn French." Belles Lettres 8, no. 1 (Fall 1992): 20-21. (Dunlap praises French's focus on the injustices suffered by women in The War against Women.)
- McDaniel, Maude. "Sisters and Other Strangers." Chicago Tribune Books (2 January 1994): section 14, p. 5. (McDaniel compliments French's prose in Our Father, commenting that the work is the most balanced of French's novels.)
- Peat, Irene M. "Review of A Season in Hell, by Marilyn French." British Medical Journal 318, no. 7179 (30 January 1999): 336. (Peat lauds French's insightful and meticulously detailed account of her battle with cancer in A Season in Hell.)
- Selway, Jennifer. "Dad's the Word." Observer (1 May 1994): 23. (Selway offers a mixed assessment of Our Father, noting that the novel's central themes remain “elusive.”)
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