“So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England . . .” So begins Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, an epic tale of the first month of World War I. That first sentence, brimming with details and expressive … Read more
Anya Seton’s goal for her writing is summed up in a single sentence: “[I want to] make history come alive and [be] as exciting as the past is to me.” She loved history for the sake of history and aimed to represent it as fairly and as interesting as possible. As she reached new heights … Read more
Anya Seton: Author, socialite, history lover, and lifelong Greenwich resident. Born Ann Seton onJanuary 23, 1904, the Setons moved to Greenwich when Ann was three months old. By the timeof her death in 1990 at the age of 86, she had hopped between Old Greenwich, Cos Cob, andGreenwich proper, but never left Connecticut for more … Read more
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