![]() I was just about Katherine’s age–nearly sixteen–and I too had spent years in a convent-a convent school, in my case– and I was itching to go out into the world, and especially, fall in love. Though Katherine de Roet, later Swynford, was, I was sure, infinitely more beautiful and gifted than me, though she lived in such a different time and place, I clicked instantly with her, and with the gorgeous book in which she lived and breathed with such intensity. But meeting Anya Seton’s Katherine, as she set out on that ‘tender green time of April’, on a journey that was to take her from sheltered convent girl to controversial great lady, was the most wonderful delight of all. A passionate, but bookish and rather inarticulate child, I had recently discovered romantic novels-devouring Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, Georgette Heyer, Jean Plaidy/Victoria Holt, and Mary Stewart, swept up into their worlds, loving them all. It was in the school library on a somnolent Sydney summer afternoon that I first met her. My article was first published in the Summer 2006 issue of the lovely UK books magazine Slightly Foxed. ![]() ![]() In the article, I also looked at Anya Seton’s fascinating family history. ![]() This, the third of my republished articles on writers and classic works, focusses on the great American historical novelist Anya Seton, in particular her most famous and beloved book, Katherine. ![]()
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