![]() ![]() Katherine is 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. 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. Anya Seton's increasingly rare classic historical novel, still as popular today as when it first appeared. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. ![]() Not price clipped (18s), previous owner's inscription to ffep, very slight offsetting to endpapers, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age, very good red cloth boards, now in protective film wrapper. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket, some slight creasing to top and bottom of spine, corners slightly rubbed, some very faint foxing to back jacket. First published in 1954, this is a fifth impression of 1960, with Vasco Lazzolo's jacket illustration of Katherine, but newspaper reviews to back jacket instead of author biography. Katherine's mother died in childbirth and her father, shortly after being knighted, was. The story covers her life from the year 1366 through 1396, her forced marriage to Sir Hugh Swynford, and her enduring love affair with John of Gaunt, the powerful Duke of Lancaster. Jacket design by Vasco Lazzolo (illustrator). Katherine by Anya Seton is the story of Katherine Roet. ![]()
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