Author · 1917–2009
Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009).
Our catalogue lists 6 books by Jane Aiken Hodge, mostly historical fiction, historical romance and Regency romance. They span 1969 to 1982. The most-read is Marry in Haste (1969).
Books by Jane Aiken Hodge
Marry in Haste
Jane Aiken Hodge
The Lost Garden
Jane Aiken Hodge
Savannah Purchase
Jane Aiken Hodge
Last Act
Jane Aiken Hodge
Wide Is the Water
Jane Aiken Hodge
Judas Flowering
Jane Aiken Hodge
Biography
Jane Aiken Hodge 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 Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge 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. Their parents’ marriage was dissolved in 1929. 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.