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...Author. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, though born in Englewood, N. J., can scarcely be called an American writer. She is thought of as one, but with less reason than in the cases of other illustrious emigrants - Edith Wharton and John Singer Sargent, for example. Her nine years of childhood in the U. S. were watched over by a governess before she went to live in France and England. Since then, 1882, she has seldom returned and never for long, though her many novels have reached the world through American publishers. Her home is in Oxfordshire ; her husband, Basil de Selincourt...
...Little French Girl-Anne Douglas Sedgwick -Houghton Mifflin...
...Editor Sedgwick. He does not "impose his personality" on the Atlantic...
...born and is starting to flourish. The Living Age, now published from his offices, prospers. The Independent, in which he has no actual ownership, under a new group of owners and editors has moved to Massachusetts and is now making its home in the Atlantic offices under Mr. Sedgwick's benignant glances. He is one of our greatest American editors, yet I believe the public knows little about him, and that is his desire. He believes that a magazine itself should speak for the personality of the Editor, and that the personality of the Editor should not be imposed...
...Ellery Sedgwick was born in New York City, of a family distinguished for its origins as well as its accomplishments. He was educated at Harvard. He was for a time a teacher at Groton School, then turned to editorial and publishing pursuits, and served on various magazines and publishing houses. The Atlantic is interesting because of its Editor's keen interest in present-day affairs, and his unwillingness to be fitted into any groove of opinion. After all, that is the first characteristic, I believe, of a successful editor...