^ a b c d e f g Moser, Margaret (29 September 2006).Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster'. Washington Irving (1960) illustrated by Harvé Stein.She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. She died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and was survived by two daughters, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. Together they had one daughter, Clemency, and they divorced in 1968. Her second marriage was to investment counselor Hamilton (Chan) M. Her first marriage at the age of 19 was to Rhodes scholar Hamilton Cottier, and they had two children, Pamela and Seton Cottier. She grew up in Cos Cob, Connecticut, in a wealthy family. In 1904, Seton was born in Manhattan to English-born naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and American travel writer Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson. Seton said that her greatest debt of all was to Miss Amy Flagg of Westoe Village in South Shields, her father's birthplace. The novel shows her typical thorough research of events and places, though the accents are a little wayward. Billy Pigg, the celebrated Northumbrian piper played "Derwentwater's Farewell" especially for her. She certainly visited her Snowdon cousins at Felton.
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 the United States. She also narrates the story of his brother Charles, beheaded after the 1745 rebellion, the last man to die for the cause. Her 1962 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 nationwide 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. 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. Seton published her first novel, My Theodosia, in 1941.
Anya Seton on her first wedding day, with bridegroom Hamilton Cottier, from a 1923 publicationĪnya Seton (Janu– November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, " biographical novels".
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