Anya SetonKatherine
This classic romance novel tells the true story of a love affair that changed history - that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The story features knights fighting in battle and serfs struggling in poverty.
Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 (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.Ann Seton was born in New York, New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich.Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers.
