Born on March 28, 1873, in Englewood, New Jersey, Anne Sedgwick grew up in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and from the age of nine in London, where her father had business connections. In her youth she also spent two years with grandparents in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was educated privately and at eighteen took up the study of painting in Paris. In 1898 a novel she had written for private amusement was, through her father╒s efforts, published in London as The Dull Miss Archinard. The success of that book led her to turn out The Confounding of Camelia, 1899, The Rescue, 1902, Paths of Judgment, 1904, The Shadow of Life, 1907, A Fountain Sealed, 1907, Anabel Channice, 1908, and Franklin Winslow Kane, 1910, in rapid order.
Writing in much the same vein as Edith Wharton and, before her, Henry James, Anne Sedgwick used the contrast of the mores and morals of different cultures╤American, English, French╤to propel her characters through studies in social conflict. Tante, 1911, her first major success, was a best-seller in the United States. The Nest, a collection of stories, 1912, and The Encounter, 1914, followed. During World War I she and her husband, essayist Basil de SÄlincourt (whom she had married in December 1908) left their comfortable home in Oxfordshire to work in hospitals and orphanages in France. She resumed her writing after the war, producing A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago, nonfiction, 1919, Autumn Crocuses (in the United States Christmas Roses), stories, 1920, The Third Window, 1920, Adrienne Toner, 1922, The Little French Girl, another best-seller, 1924, The Old Countess, 1927, Dark Hester, 1929, and Philippa, 1930. In 1931, during her last visit to the United States, she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. After a lengthy illness she died in Hampstead, England, on July 19, 1935.
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