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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1941
  • Latest Book:
    January 1975
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About the Author

Anya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". She pass d away at the age of 86.

Born: 23 January 1904
Died: 8 November 1990

Seton married twice. Her first marriage at the age of 19 was to Rhodes scholar Hamilton Cottier, and they had two children, Pamela and Seton Cottier.

Her second marriage was to investment counselor Hamilton (Chan) M. Chase in 1930. Together they had one daughter, Clemency, and they divorced in 1968.

She died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and was survived by two daughters, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich.

Book List in Order: 14 titles



    • / Historical Romance
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    THEODOSIA HER FATHER bound her to him with a love transcending the ordinary. HER HUSBAND could claim her, but he could never have her for his own. THE OTHER MAN rich and ambitious, demanded that she betray her loyalty as a daughter and her v...



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    What was the evil that haunted Dragonwyck? Miranda Wells, eighteen, had spent her entire life on her father's farm. Luxury, beauty, elegance, even love, were things that had the unreality of a storybook to her. Then an invitation came from a d...



    • / Historical Romance
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    A TUMULTUOUS STORY OF THE FORGING OF A NATION...AND OF WOMEN BORN TO FOLLOW THEIR HEARTS TEMPEST OF LOVE AS A DUTIFUL WIFE, brave young Phebe Honeywood accompanied her adventurous husband on the hellish journey to the colonies. There, withstan...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Golden, girl That was Amanda. Born into luxury, she was pampered, adored, spoiled, and very beautiful. She could have had any man she wanted. Millionaire Tim Merrill had been in love with her for years. But she chose Dart, tall, handsome, minin...



    • / Historical Romance
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    Against the turbulent and glittering backdrop of fourteenth-century England, Anya Seton has spun a lusty, uninhibited novel of a forbidden love affair that set the royal houses of Europe aflame with scandal and intrigue. It is the story of Katheri...



    • / Historical Romance
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    ANCIENT ROMANCE From a fascinating corner of history, comes a thrilling story of England in the time of the Romans. Quintus Tullius, a young standard bearer for the Ninth Roman Legion, vows to properly bury his grandfather who had been killed by t...



    • / General Fiction
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    Anya Seton, author of the bestselling Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, was at her peak when she penned those two novels in the mid-1950s. But during that same period, she also wrote a little-known short...



    • / Historical Romance
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    THE WINTHROP WOMAN . . . shocked the bigoted colonists by daring to love one man while married to another. . . publicly defended an outcast woman accused of heresy . . . challenged a ruthless captain bent on the massacre of her friends, the Siwanot ...



  • Devil Water is set in that violent period in English history when the Jacobites attempted to restore the Stuart dynasty to the throne. It is based on the true stories of James Radcliffe and his hot-blooded brother Charles, who were doubly bound to th...






    • / Historical Romance
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    Set against a dazzingly detailed backdrop of 10th century England and Iceland, AVALON unfolds the strange romance between a wandering French prince (Rumon) and a beautiful Cornish peasant girl (Merewyn). Like Anya Seton's earlier bestsellers, this fu...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    It was not that Fey Cameron was so beautiful. It was just that she seemed to be. There had always been something regal about her. Despite her humble background, she carried herself like a princess. There was another thing about Fey. She was gifted wi...



    • / Paranormal Romance
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    THE YEAR WAS 1968... The country was England. Richard Marsdon had brought his new bride, Celia, to the family home, Medfield Place. They were young and very much in love. But Richard and Celia were not only of this time. They had lived an...



    • / Historical Romance
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    In a spellbinding novel of psychic possession, a young 20th century woman is caught in the passion of an 18th century love affair. POSSESSION . . .? REINCARNATION. . . OR A LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE . . . No one ever knew that shy, quiet Amy De...



    • / Historical
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    La historia de amor entre Catalina de Roet-Swynford y Juan de Gante, duque de Lancaster y rey consorte de Castilla.En el siglo XIV, en plena peste negra, los Plantagenet gobiernan sobre Inglaterra e Irlanda con despotismo rodeados de una corte corrup...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anya Seton has published 14 books.

Anya Seton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Smouldering Fires, was published in January 1975.

The first book by Anya Seton, My Theodosia, was published in January 1941.

No. Anya Seton does not write books in series.