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Freifrau von Betsey Riddle Hutten zum Stolzenberg
1874–1957
An American-born novelist who published as Betsey Riddle and Baroness von Hutten, she built a readership with historical fiction and society novels in the early 20th century. Her life was as dramatic as her books, stretching from the United States to Europe and wartime England.
2 Audiobooks
Happy House
by Freifrau von Betsey Riddle Hutten zum Stolzenberg
The Halo
by Freifrau von Betsey Riddle Hutten zum Stolzenberg
About the author
Born Bettina Riddle on February 14, 1874, she was an American writer later known as Betsey Riddle and Baroness von Hutten. She is generally remembered for novels of historical fiction, though her work also included lighter society stories and romantic fiction.
Her name changed with her life: she married into the von Hutten family and published under forms of that title, including Freifrau von Betsey Riddle Hutten zum Stolzenberg. She lived part of her life in England, and during World War I her connection to a German ex-husband led to the unusual and much-noted experience of being treated as an enemy alien there.
She died on January 26, 1957. Today, she is mostly encountered through reprints and digital editions of her novels, which still give readers a glimpse of the tastes and tensions of their period.