In memory of Anya Seton

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Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 (although the year is often misstated to be 1906 or 1916) - November 8, 1990) was an American author of historical romances.
 
She was born Ann Seton in New York City in 1904, the only child of Boy Scouts of America founder and naturalist-conservationist-illustrator Ernest Thompson Seton and writer Grace Gallatin. Ernest Seton was a British subject, descended from a long line of notables in Northumberland near the Scottish border. He maintained that sense of heritage when he immigrated to America and amassed his fortune.
 
Grace Gallatin was no less active, a founder of the Campfire Girls who organized a French relief effort during World War I and twice president of the National League of American Pen Women. She also authored seven travel books and served as president of the Connecticut Women's Suffrage League.
 
Despite her family wealth and innate intelligence, Anya Seton did not attend college. Married at age 19 to Rhodes scholar Hamilton Cottier, she bore two children and divorced him within five years. In 1930, she married Hamilton Chase, an investment counselor, and had one daughter with him. Her parents divorced in 1934, and her father relocated to New Mexico, a setting that inspired two of her books. Seton's name is sometimes credited as "Anya Seton Chase," but they divorced in 1968.

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