Billy Pigg, the celebrated Northumbrian piper played 'Derwentwater's Farewell' especially for her. Anya certainly visited her Snowdon cousins at Felton. The action of the novel moves back and forth between Northumberland, Tyneside, London and America.Īnya Seton stated that the book developed out of her love for Northumberland. She also narrates the story of his brother Charles, beheaded after the 1745 rebellion, the last man to die for the cause. Her novel Devil Water concerns James, the luckless Earl of Derwentwater and his involvement with the Jacobite rising of 1715. Most of her novels have been recently republished, several with forewords by Philippa Gregory. Two 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 eventually became the basis for the Tudor and Stuart families of England, and Green Darkness, the story of a modern couple plagued by their past life incarnations. Dragonwyck (1941) and Foxfire (1950) were both made into Hollywood films. Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers. She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. Celia can only be saved by piercing the green darkness of the past and revealing its mysterious truth.Anya Seton (Janu(although the year is often misstated to be 1906 or 1916) - November 8, 1990) was the pen name of the American author of historical romances, Ann Seton.Īnn Seton was born in New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Celia, the young, rich wife of Richard Marsden, finds her marriage and happiness threatened by the tragedies of the past. Centuries later, history seems poised to repeat itself.

Read more passionate love that will not be extinguished - not even by Celia's violent death. As the years pass, their childish adoration deepens into a. Against his will, Stephen returns her affection. When 13-year-old Celia da Bohun first meets Stephen Marsdon, a young Catholic priest, she falls hopelessly in love. Almost two decades after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. Protestant king Edward VI has been on the throne for five years. 'Seductive, atmospheric, intriguing, Green Darkness is one of those classic novels you come back to time and again' (Kate Mosse) The hugely popular historical novel from the author of Katherine.

Tudor England brought to life in all its glory and bloodthirstiness, from the bestselling author of KATHERINE. Description for Green Darkness Paperback.

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