Jane Aiken Hodge 4 Dec 1917–17 June 2009 was an American-born British writer.
Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conrad was the father, by Jessie McDonald, of the writers John Aiken, Jane Aiken Hodge and Joan Aiken (Nicholas Dee). Subtitle of her obituary in The Times is 'prolific writer of romance and suspense novels'.
Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie m.1930 the English writer Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 Oct 1882 – 24 Feb 1974). Jane was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was Born Joan Delano Aiken #8254012 b.4 Sep 1924 Rye, Sussex, England d.4 Jan 2004 (79y) Petworth, Sussex. Spouses:
Ronald George Brown (m. 1945; d. 1955)
Julius Goldstein (m. 1976; d. 2001) ? #77766632
Aiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in London between 1943 and 1949. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist who was also working at UNIC. They had two children before he died in 1955.
Aiken m.1976 the New York landscape painter and teacher Julius Goldstein. They divided their time between her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex, and New York. He died in 2001
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009. The Times obituary (pub. July 25, 2009) stated that she left a letter 'expressing her deep distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories'.
She died at home in Lewes, Sussex on June 17, 2009 and was survived by two daughters and two granddaughters.
Her sister https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2004/jan/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
15 Aug 2020 Alicelth M#47131242 mentioned Hodge
Married 3 Jan 1948:
Alan Hodge (16 October 1915 – 25 May 1979) was an English historian and journalist. He was a member of the circle of writers and artists that centred on Laura Riding and Robert Graves in the late 1930s, and later collaborated with Graves on The Long Week-End, a social history of Britain between the wars, and The Reader Over Your Shoulder, a guide to writing English prose. After the Second World War he worked as the general editor of Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, as an editorial assistant on Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and as a founding co-editor (with Peter Quennell) of the successful magazine History Today.
In 1942 Hodge opened the way for his first wife, m.29 January 1938 Beryl Pritchard first Hodge then Graves, to marry Robert Graves by instituting divorce proceedings, and the divorce was made absolute the following year. In the autumn of 1947 he met Jane Aiken, daughter of the poet and novelist Conrad Aiken, and on 3 January 1948 they married. He encouraged her to begin her successful career writing Gothic romances. They lived in Wimbledon and later Lewes, and had two daughters, Jessica and Joanna.
Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conrad was the father, by Jessie McDonald, of the writers John Aiken, Jane Aiken Hodge and Joan Aiken (Nicholas Dee). Subtitle of her obituary in The Times is 'prolific writer of romance and suspense novels'.
Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie m.1930 the English writer Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 Oct 1882 – 24 Feb 1974). Jane was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was Born Joan Delano Aiken #8254012 b.4 Sep 1924 Rye, Sussex, England d.4 Jan 2004 (79y) Petworth, Sussex. Spouses:
Ronald George Brown (m. 1945; d. 1955)
Julius Goldstein (m. 1976; d. 2001) ? #77766632
Aiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in London between 1943 and 1949. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist who was also working at UNIC. They had two children before he died in 1955.
Aiken m.1976 the New York landscape painter and teacher Julius Goldstein. They divided their time between her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex, and New York. He died in 2001
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009. The Times obituary (pub. July 25, 2009) stated that she left a letter 'expressing her deep distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories'.
She died at home in Lewes, Sussex on June 17, 2009 and was survived by two daughters and two granddaughters.
Her sister https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2004/jan/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
15 Aug 2020 Alicelth M#47131242 mentioned Hodge
Married 3 Jan 1948:
Alan Hodge (16 October 1915 – 25 May 1979) was an English historian and journalist. He was a member of the circle of writers and artists that centred on Laura Riding and Robert Graves in the late 1930s, and later collaborated with Graves on The Long Week-End, a social history of Britain between the wars, and The Reader Over Your Shoulder, a guide to writing English prose. After the Second World War he worked as the general editor of Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, as an editorial assistant on Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and as a founding co-editor (with Peter Quennell) of the successful magazine History Today.
In 1942 Hodge opened the way for his first wife, m.29 January 1938 Beryl Pritchard first Hodge then Graves, to marry Robert Graves by instituting divorce proceedings, and the divorce was made absolute the following year. In the autumn of 1947 he met Jane Aiken, daughter of the poet and novelist Conrad Aiken, and on 3 January 1948 they married. He encouraged her to begin her successful career writing Gothic romances. They lived in Wimbledon and later Lewes, and had two daughters, Jessica and Joanna.
Jane Aiken Hodge 4 Dec 1917–17 June 2009 was an American-born British writer.
Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conrad was the father, by Jessie McDonald, of the writers John Aiken, Jane Aiken Hodge and Joan Aiken (Nicholas Dee). Subtitle of her obituary in The Times is 'prolific writer of romance and suspense novels'.
Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie m.1930 the English writer Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 Oct 1882 – 24 Feb 1974). Jane was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was Born Joan Delano Aiken #8254012 b.4 Sep 1924 Rye, Sussex, England d.4 Jan 2004 (79y) Petworth, Sussex. Spouses:
Ronald George Brown (m. 1945; d. 1955)
Julius Goldstein (m. 1976; d. 2001) ? #77766632
Aiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in London between 1943 and 1949. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist who was also working at UNIC. They had two children before he died in 1955.
Aiken m.1976 the New York landscape painter and teacher Julius Goldstein. They divided their time between her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex, and New York. He died in 2001
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009. The Times obituary (pub. July 25, 2009) stated that she left a letter 'expressing her deep distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories'.
She died at home in Lewes, Sussex on June 17, 2009 and was survived by two daughters and two granddaughters.
Her sister https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2004/jan/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
15 Aug 2020 Alicelth M#47131242 mentioned Hodge
Married 3 Jan 1948:
Alan Hodge (16 October 1915 – 25 May 1979) was an English historian and journalist. He was a member of the circle of writers and artists that centred on Laura Riding and Robert Graves in the late 1930s, and later collaborated with Graves on The Long Week-End, a social history of Britain between the wars, and The Reader Over Your Shoulder, a guide to writing English prose. After the Second World War he worked as the general editor of Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, as an editorial assistant on Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and as a founding co-editor (with Peter Quennell) of the successful magazine History Today.
In 1942 Hodge opened the way for his first wife, m.29 January 1938 Beryl Pritchard first Hodge then Graves, to marry Robert Graves by instituting divorce proceedings, and the divorce was made absolute the following year. In the autumn of 1947 he met Jane Aiken, daughter of the poet and novelist Conrad Aiken, and on 3 January 1948 they married. He encouraged her to begin her successful career writing Gothic romances. They lived in Wimbledon and later Lewes, and had two daughters, Jessica and Joanna.
Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald (1889–1970), was a Master's graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conrad was the father, by Jessie McDonald, of the writers John Aiken, Jane Aiken Hodge and Joan Aiken (Nicholas Dee). Subtitle of her obituary in The Times is 'prolific writer of romance and suspense novels'.
Jessie and Conrad's marriage was dissolved in 1929, and Jessie m.1930 the English writer Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 Oct 1882 – 24 Feb 1974). Jane was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was Born Joan Delano Aiken #8254012 b.4 Sep 1924 Rye, Sussex, England d.4 Jan 2004 (79y) Petworth, Sussex. Spouses:
Ronald George Brown (m. 1945; d. 1955)
Julius Goldstein (m. 1976; d. 2001) ? #77766632
Aiken worked for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in London between 1943 and 1949. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist who was also working at UNIC. They had two children before he died in 1955.
Aiken m.1976 the New York landscape painter and teacher Julius Goldstein. They divided their time between her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex, and New York. He died in 2001
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009. The Times obituary (pub. July 25, 2009) stated that she left a letter 'expressing her deep distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories'.
She died at home in Lewes, Sussex on June 17, 2009 and was survived by two daughters and two granddaughters.
Her sister https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2004/jan/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
15 Aug 2020 Alicelth M#47131242 mentioned Hodge
Married 3 Jan 1948:
Alan Hodge (16 October 1915 – 25 May 1979) was an English historian and journalist. He was a member of the circle of writers and artists that centred on Laura Riding and Robert Graves in the late 1930s, and later collaborated with Graves on The Long Week-End, a social history of Britain between the wars, and The Reader Over Your Shoulder, a guide to writing English prose. After the Second World War he worked as the general editor of Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, as an editorial assistant on Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and as a founding co-editor (with Peter Quennell) of the successful magazine History Today.
In 1942 Hodge opened the way for his first wife, m.29 January 1938 Beryl Pritchard first Hodge then Graves, to marry Robert Graves by instituting divorce proceedings, and the divorce was made absolute the following year. In the autumn of 1947 he met Jane Aiken, daughter of the poet and novelist Conrad Aiken, and on 3 January 1948 they married. He encouraged her to begin her successful career writing Gothic romances. They lived in Wimbledon and later Lewes, and had two daughters, Jessica and Joanna.
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