Anya Seton wrote historical fiction about women whose private lives intersect with political and religious change. Katherine follows Katherine Swynford from her early life at the English court through her long relationship with John of Gaunt, placing romance inside the dynastic politics of fourteenth-century England. Green Darkness alternates between a twentieth-century woman and a Tudor-era past life, combining historical romance with reincarnation, while Dragonwyck moves to nineteenth-century New York and Gothic family secrets. Seton’s novels are detailed, accessible and strongly relationship-led, with substantial attention to clothing, houses, travel and social rank. Seton is most naturally placed alongside historical romance, biographical historical fiction and Gothic historical fiction. Katherine is the defining title for readers who want a long medieval novel built around a real woman whose descendants became central to English royal history. Read more Less
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