Jane Aiken Hodge

Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers’ reader and a reviewer.

She wrote lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, Passion and Principle. But her main output was over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including Polonaise, The Lost Garden and Savannah Purchase, the third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence.

She enjoyed the borderland between mystery and novel and was pleased to be classed as a feminist writer. She died in July 2009.