Anne "Annie" French Hector (Dublin, Ireland, 1825 – London, 10 July 1902) was a 19th-century Irish popular novelist who wrote under the pen name "Mrs Alexander".

It has been noted that her works "typically revolve around a young girl torn between money, family and love, often complicated by a legacy.

[3] In London, Annie French made some literary acquaintances, among them the novelists Anna Maria Hall and Eliza Lynn Linton and Household Words sub-editor W. H. Wills.

[6] After her husband's death in 1875, she used his first name as her pseudonym and completed over forty novels as "Mrs Alexander", many of them published by George and Richard Bentley.

[7] All her books enjoyed wide popularity in the United States, notably The Wooing O't (1873), Ralph Wilton's Weird (1875), Her Dearest Foe (1876), The Freres (1882), A Golden Autumn (1897), A Winning Hazard (1897), and Kitty Costello (1902),[8] her final novel, which was a quasi-autobiographical work detailing a young Irish girl's move to London.