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Anne Douglas Sedgwick
1873–1935
An American-born British novelist with a sharp eye for the tensions between Europe and America, she became known for elegant fiction about manners, emotions, and cultural misunderstandings. Her stories often pair social comedy with a keen sense of inner life.
17 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Christmas Roses and Other Stories
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A Fountain Sealed
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Dull Miss Archinard
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Adrienne Toner: A Novel
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Third Window
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Amabel Channice
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Franklin Kane
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Tante
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Rescue
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Confounding of Camelia
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Shadow of Life
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Paths of Judgement
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The Little French Girl
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Dark Hester
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
About the author
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1873, she moved to London as a child and spent most of her life in England. That transatlantic background shaped much of her fiction, which often explores the differences between American and European values and the complicated social worlds of the upper and professional classes.
She wrote novels throughout her adult life, along with short stories and nonfiction. Her work was widely read in the early twentieth century, and several of her books reached bestseller lists in the United States. Readers were drawn to her polished style, psychological insight, and the way she turned social observation into compelling drama.
In 1908 she married the British writer and critic Basil de Sélincourt. She died in Hampstead in 1935, but her books remain of interest for their vivid portraits of people caught between countries, customs, and expectations.