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Anya Seton

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Seton married twice. Her first marriage was to Hamilton "Ham" Cottier, a Rhodes scholar, whom she married when she was 19 years old. In 1925, Seton gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Pamela. Their second child, Seton, was born in 1928 and died of an overdose in 1979. Seton and Cottier
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in English but she never attended college. The Setons were wealthy, and Seton often traveled with her parents. Despite her family's money, Seton very often moved homes. Because of this, Seton was unable to think of any place as her true home, nor any school as her true school. Ernest was often away,
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Two weeks later, Seton married investment counselor Hamilton "Chan" M. Chase, whom she had an affair with, in 1930. Seton and Chase spent the early years of their marriage at her childhood home in Greenwich, Connecticut, Little Peequo, with Seton's mother. They later built a home called Sea Rune in
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Seton died of heart failure at the age of 86 on November 8, 1990, at Sea Rune in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and was survived by Pamela and Clemency, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. She is interred at
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played "Derwentwater's Farewell" especially for her. The novel shows her typical thorough research of events and places, though the accents are a little wayward. Seton said that her greatest debt of all was to
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and even when he was around, he frequently criticized his daughter. Since her parents were often busy with their careers, Seton spent much time with her governess.
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Seton's parents did not have any other children. They separated in the late 1920s and divorced in 1934. Following the divorce, her father moved to
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were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers:
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co-founder, naturalist, and author. Ernest, a British immigrant, has notable Scottish lineage in
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was chosen as Britain’s 95th best-loved novel of all time in a nationwide poll conducted by the
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Seton at her wedding to her first husband Hamilton Cottier, from a 1923 publication
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Anya Seton's papers, housed at the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich
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divorced in 1930 following several extramarital affairs on Seton's part.
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Seton was primarily educated by private tutors and graduated from
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Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period
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Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages
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Manhattan
Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Putnam Cemetery
Katherine
Green Darkness
Ernest Thompson Seton
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
biographical novels
Bryant Park
New York City
Ernest Thompson Seton
Boy Scouts of America
Northumberland
Canada
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
suffragist
National League of American Pen Women
Cos Cob
Greenwich.
Spence School
diploma
New Mexico
My Theodosia
historical novels
Dragonwyck
Foxfire
Katherine
Katherine Swynford
John of Gaunt

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