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This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q2857861, en:Wikipedia.Seton stated that the book developed out of her love for Northumberland. The action of the novel moves back and forth between Northumberland, Tyneside, London, and America. fueron llevadas al cine: Dragonwyck (1944) y. She also narrates the story of his brother Charles, beheaded after the 1745 rebellion, the last man to die for the cause. Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715. In 2003, Katherine was chosen as the 95th best British novel of all time in a nation-wide poll conducted by the BBC. Most of her novels have been recently republished, several with forewords by Philippa Gregory.

Three 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 were the direct ancestors of the Tudors, Stuarts, and the modern British royal family Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations and The Winthrop Woman about the notorious Elizabeth Fones, niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anya Seton (JanuNovember 8, 1990) was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances, or as she preferred they be called, 'biographical novels'.Īnya Seton's historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers: Dragonwyck (1944) and Foxfire (1950) were both made into Hollywood films.

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