Ann Seton was born in New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich.
Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers. Dragonwyck (1941) and Foxfire (1950) were both made into Hollywood films. Two of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present; Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who eventually became the basis for the Tudor and Stuart families of England, and Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations. Most of her novels have been recently republished, several with forewords by Philippa Gregory.
Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715. She also narrates the story of his brother Charles, beheaded after the 1745 rebellion, the last man to die for the cause. The action of the novel moves back and forth between Northumberland, Tyneside, London and America.
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Fiction, History, FICTION / Historical, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, Dutch Americans, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Great britain, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, United states, fiction, Vikings, American fiction, Apache Indians, Avalon (Legendary place), Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807, Condensed books, Cornwall (england : county), fiction, Families, Fiction, gothic, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, romance, suspensePlaces
Arizona, Great Britain, Cornwall (England : County), Europe, Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.), Iceland, New York City, South Africa, USPeople
Apache, Charles Radcliffe (1693-1746), Geoffrey Chaucer (-1400), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), Katherine Duchess of Lancaster (1350-1403), Native Americans, Washington Irving (1783-1859,)Time
14th century, 1912-1950, 1930s, 20th century, Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066, Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.ID Numbers
- OLID: OL1964240A
- ISNI: 0000000119709755
- VIAF: 49345912
- Wikidata: Q2857861
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q2857861
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- Anya SETON
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