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    Yes," Nicholas replied, in a bored voice. "The name is Dutch. Dragonwyck, meaning place of the dragon. It derives from an Indian legend about a flying serpent whose eyes were fire and whose flaming breath withered the corn." "Heavens!" With a light laugh, Miranda asked her new employer if the red men had sent forth a champion to do battle with the dragon. The patroon's face was dark, unsmiling. "To appease him the wise men of the tribe sacrificed a pure maiden on the rocky bluff you see above you." Miranda's laughter died. Something in Nicholas Van Ryn's cruel, handsome features made her imagine herself in the Indian maiden's place.


    — Anya Seton

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    Notable works
    My Theodosia (1941)
    Dragonwyck (1944)
    The Turquoise (1946)
    The Hearth and Eagle (1948)
    Foxfire (1951)
    Katherine (1954)
    The Mistletoe and Sword (1955)
    The Winthrop Woman (1958)
    Devil Water (1962)
    Avalon (1965)
    Green Darkness (1973)
    Smouldering Fires (1975). The action of the novel moves back and forth between Northumberland Tyneside London and America. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton.

    Anya Seton (January 23 1904 (although the year is often misstated to be 1906 or 1916) - November 8 1990) was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase an American author of historical romances.

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