Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Mrs. de Selincourt (1873-1935) was an American-born British writer. In 1908, she married the British essayist and journalist, Basil de Selincourt. During World War I she and her husband were volunteer workers in hospitals and orphanages in France. Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Her works include: The Confounding of Camelia (1899), A Fountain Sealed (1907), Amabel Channice (1908), Franklin Kane (1910), Tante (1911), The Nest (1913), The Encounter (1914), A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago (1918) and The Little French Girl (1924).
Born on March 28, 1873, in Englewood, New Jersey, Anne Sedgwick lived from the age of nine in London, where her father had business connections. In 1898 a love 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 produce others in rapid order. Writing in much the same vein as Edith Wharton and Henry James, Sedgwick contrasted the mores and morals of American and European cultures. During World War I Sedgwick and her husband, essayist Basil de Sélincourt worked in hospitals and orphanages in France. After the war Sedgwick resumed her writing and 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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