Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1903)
Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1903)
Born(1873-03-28)28 March 1873
Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Died19 July 1935(1935-07-19) (aged 62)
Hampstead, England
OccupationNovelist
Notable worksTante, The Little French Girl
SpouseBasil de Sélincourt

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 March 1873 – 19 July 1935) was an American-born British writer. She wrote novels throughout her adult life, two collections of short stories, and a volume of reminiscences of the Comtesse de Cabarru.[1]

Biography

The daughter of George Stanley Sedgwick, a businessman, and Mary (Douglas) Sedgwick, she was born in Englewood, New Jersey. At age nine, her family moved to London, and she was based in England for the rest of her life, though she made return visits to the United States. As a young woman, she studied art in Paris for five years before turning to writing.[1]

In 1908, she married the British essayist and journalist Basil de Sélincourt. During World War I, she and her husband were volunteer workers in hospitals and orphanages in France.[2]

Her novels, which frequently feature artists or musicians and are set in English or French country houses, explore the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans, leading her to be compared to Henry James.[1] Her best-selling novel Tante was made into a 1919 film entitled The Impossible Woman; likewise The Little French Girl was made into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929, as determined by The New York Times.

Sedgwick died in Hampstead, England, in 1935.[3] The following year her husband published Anne Douglas Sedgwick: A Portrait in Letters.[4]

Bibliography

Anne Douglas Sedgwick circa 1921

Novels

  • The Dull Miss Archinard (1898)
  • The Confounding of Camelia (1899)
  • The Rescue (1902)
  • Paths of Judgement (1904)
  • The Shadow of Life (1906)
  • A Fountain Sealed (1907)[5]
  • Valerie Upton (1908)
  • Amabel Channice (1908)
  • Franklin Winslow Kane (1910)
  • Tante (1912) – No.9 for the year in the U.S.
  • The Encounter (1914)
  • The Third Window (1920)
  • Adrienne Toner (1922)
  • The Little French Girl (1924) – No.3 for the year in the U.S.[6]
  • The Old Countess (1927) – No.9 for the year in the U.S.[7]
  • Dark Hester (1929) – No.3 for the year in the U.S.
  • Philippa (1929)

Short stories

  • The Nest (1913)[8]
  • Christmas Roses and Other Stories (1920)

Non-fiction

  • A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago (1919)

Letters

  • Anne Douglas Sedgwick: A Portrait in Letters (ed. Basil de Selincourt, 1936)

References

  1. ^ a b c Rosenblum, Joseph (2003). "SEDGWICK, Anne Douglas". Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum. pp. 1011–12 – via EBSCOhost.
  2. ^ "Anne Douglas Sedgwick". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2024. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Anne D. Sedgwick, Novelist, Is Dead". The New York Times. 22 July 1935.
  4. ^ Woods, Katherine (25 October 1936). "Anne Douglas Sedgwick as Her Letters Reveal Her (book review)". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Beauty and Power in a New Novel (book review)" (PDF). The New York Times. 2 November 1907.
  6. ^ (12 September 1924). The Little French Girl – A New Novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Milwaukee Journal
  7. ^ (2 April 1927). 'The Little French Girl Theme' Revised in 'The Old Countess', Milwaukee Journal
  8. ^ "Miss Sedgwick's Stories (book review)" (PDF). The New York Times. 30 March 1913.
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