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Anya seton 1944 novel6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715. Seton published her first novel, My Theodosia, in 1941. 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. ![]()
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