Married at age 19 to Rhodes scholar Hamilton Cottier, she bore two children and divorced him within five years. She also authored seven travel books and served as president of the Connecticut Women's Suffrage League.ĭespite her family wealth and innate intelligence, Anya Seton did not attend college. Grace Gallatin was no less active, a founder of the Campfire Girls who organized a French relief effort during World War I and twice president of the National League of American Pen Women. He maintained that sense of heritage when he immigrated to America and amassed his fortune. Ernest Seton was a British subject, descended from a long line of notables in Northumberland near the Scottish border. She was born Ann Seton in New York City in 1904, the only child of Boy Scouts of America founder and naturalist-conservationist-illustrator Ernest Thompson Seton and writer Grace Gallatin. Those books also whetted the public appetite for historical themes, exotic locations, romantic mystery, and compelling heroines. Buck's The Good Earth, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber rang up cash registers at the theatres as well as bookshops. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Pearl S. It was a profitable era for female authors. In 1941, America was also coming out of the shadow of the Depression and gripped by prewar jitters, fueled by the sentiment that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt encouraged the country into combat for economic reasons. Joseph Alston, and her love for explorer Meriwether Lewis, combined with her mysterious death was a bestseller.

The compact story of Aaron Burr's daughter, her marriage to future South Carolina Gov. Seton published her first book, My Theodosia, in 1941. Books such as Katherine, Green Darkness, Avalon, and Devil Water have remained continuously in print for nearly 70 years, a remarkable tribute to her storytelling allure. Elegantly mannered and exhaustively researched, the writing of Anya Seton has captivated readers for decades.

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