News and Events
Picture of Anne Sebba givign a talk on Ida and Louise Cook, sisters who saved Jews and became Righteous Gentiles on behalf of The Wiener Library.

Artful lessons in power dressing

Evening Standard

Feb 18 2010

Godolphin and Latymer School for Girls in Hammersmith, hosting its first Arts Festival next week, has men talking for three out of four evenings — Andrew Marr, Chris Patten and William Boyd. But on Tuesday 23rd, Francine Stock

and Anne Sebba, both mothers

with daughters at the school, will

be discussing how women use

power and influence.

Sebba, biographer of Laura Ashley, Mother Teresa, Jennie Churchill

now researching Wallis Simpson, thinks women excel at manipulating behind the throne. To prove her point she will wear killer high heels and a jacket by Alexander McQueen, the late fashion designer whose clothes "made women feel powerful". Hmmm ... what sort of lesson is that?

Forthcoming Events

September 15th, 2010

All day lecture to Abingdon

Nadfas members on

Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

October 7th, 2010 11.30

Anne will be talking about

William Bankes

the Exiled Collector to

Blackmore Vale Nadfas

www.nadfas.org.uk

January 13th, 2011 10.30

Anne will be talking about

Jennie Churchill to Thames DfAS

at Bourne End

www.nadfas.org.uk

January 20th 2011 11.am

Anne will be talking about Jennie Churchill at Rutland DFAS

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 2nd, 2011

Anne will be talking at

Saffron Walden at an all day

Study Session

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 9th, 2011 7.30 pm

Anne will be talking about

William Bankes at Plymouth DFAS

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 15th 2011, 11am

Two lectures in Winchester on

The Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 23rd, 2011 2.30 pm

Anne will be talking about

Laura Ashley at Felstead Dfas

in Essex

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

March 9th, 2011, 10.30 am

Anne will be talking at

Ribble Vale on Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

March 17th, 2011 2.30pm

Lunchtime talk to Kensington

and Chelsea Nadfas on the

Dollar Princesses

Kensington Town Hall

www.nadfas.org.uk

March 22nd, 2011

Anne will be talking at a

Study Day in Nottingham about

Jennie Churchill and

The Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

March 24th, 2011 7.30 pm

Anne will be talking about

William Bankes at Wimborne

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 5th 2011, 10.45 am

Anne will be talking at Brighton and Hove on Laura Ashley

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 5th 2011, 8 pm

Anne will be talking In Regents Park, London about Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 8th, 2011 Lunchtime

Sheffield Women's Lecture Club Anne will be giving a talk on the Dollar Princesses at the

Mercure St Pauls Hotel Sheffield

www.mercure.com

April 13th 2011 11am

Anne will be talking in Salisbury,

Wilts. on Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 27th 2011 7.45 pm

Anne will be talking in Leicester

about Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

May 4th 2011,  11am

Anne will be talking to N. Wilts Nadfas at Melksham about

William Bankes

www.nadfas.org.uk

May 4th, 2011 7pm

Anne Will be talking to Esher

and Cobham Nadfas about

TheDollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

May 9th, 20117.30 pm

Anne will talk about Jennie Churchill to Pewsey Vale DFAS

www.nadfas.org.uk

May 12th, 2011 11am

Anne will give a talk to

Colchester DFAS on

William Bankes tbc

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

May 17th 2011 7.15 pm

Anne will talk to Norwich DFAS

on William Bankes,

The Exiled Collector

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

May 19th, 2011 10.30 am

Anne will give a morning

lecture to members of Cheam Nadfas about Jennie Churchill,

Pushy Mother, Style Icon or

Ambitious Seductress

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 7th 2011, 11am

Anne will give a talk about

William Bankes in Ipswich

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 9th 2011

Anne will be giving a lecture

lunchat Chartwell

to commemorate the

90th anniversary of the date

Jennie Churchill died.

Tkts from National Trust

Chartwell

June 13th, 2011 2.30

Anne will give a talk about the Dollar Princesses in West Sussex

Adur valley

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 15th, 2011 10.30am

Anne will give a talk to

Guildford Dfas on the Dollar

Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

June 16th, 2011 7.30 pm

Anne will give a talk at

the King's School Ely on

the Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 21st  2011 10.30am

Anne will give a talk to

Bromley U3A about

Jennie Churchill

June 22nd 2011,

1.45 and 8pm

Anne will give an afternoon and evening talk on The Dollar Princesses in Cranleigh

www.nadfas.org.uk

September 27th, 2011 10.30

Anne will give a morning talk to Sanderstead DFAS

on Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

September 28th, 2011,

2.15 Camberley Dfas

Anne will give an afternoon talk on The Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

October 4th, 2011 11am

Anne will give a morning talk on

Jennie Churchill at Kingston

Langley Wilts

www.nadfas.org.uk

October 11, 2011 2.30/7pm

Anne will be in Edinburgh talking about Jennie Churchill www.nadfas.org.uk

November 8, 2011 10.30 am

Anne Will give a talk at Havering

on Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

November 10, 2011 8.15 pm

Anne will give a talk in Chorleywood about the Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

November 21, 2011 2pm

Anne will be giving a talk about Jennie Churchill in Liverpool at the Williamson Art Gallery www.nadfas.org.uk

December 8, 2011 10.45 am

Anne will give a talk about

The Dollar Princesses in Marlow

www.nadfas.org.uk

January 10th, 2012 7.30 pm

Anne will give a talk at Woodford Green Nadfas on

The Dollar Princesses

www.nadfas.org.uk

January 19th 2012 8pm

Anne will give a talk on

Jennie to Vectis Dfas,

Isle of Wight

nadfas.org.uk

Jan 24th 2012, 2.15pm

Anne will give an afternoon talk

on The Dollar Princesses at Alresford

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

February 6th 2012 , 7pm

Anne will talk in Bath about

William Bankes, the Exiled Collector

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 9th, 2012 11 am

Anne will give a talk to

Gloucester Dfas on Laura Ashley

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 14th, 2012 11am

Anne will give a talk on

Laura Ashley in West Wales

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 15, 2012 7.45 pm

Anne will give a talk to

Northampton DFAS on

Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

February 22-23, 2012

Hamburg and Osnabruck

Anne will be discussing her

newly republished

biography of Laura Ashley

Watch This Space

February 29th 2012, 11am

Anne will give a talk about

William Bankes in Solihull

www.nadfas.org.uk

March 6th 2012 10.30/2.15

Anne will talk about Jennie

Churchill in Andover, Hants

Test Valley

www.nadfas.org.uk

March 8th , 2012 2pm

Anne will talk about the Dollar Princesses in Lechlade,

Upper Thames

www.nadfas.org.uk

March 13th, 2012 11 am

Anne will give a talk to N.

Staffordhsire DFAS on

Laura Ashley

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 8-11 2012

Costa Del Sol

Anne will give a series of lectures

details to be confirmed

www.nadfas.org.uk

April 16th 2012, 11am & 2pm

Anne will give 2 talks on

William Bankes in Bath

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

May 2012 

Anne will be on a

month long tour of Australia talking about

various subjects for

Australian Adfas

June 13th 2012 10.30am

Anne will give a talk in

East Horsley

about Jennie Churchill

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 14th, 2012 11 am

West Malling, Kent

Anne will give a talk about

William Bankes

www.nadfas.org.uk

June 20th, 2012, 1.45pm

Anne will give a talk about

Laura Ashley to Windsor and Maidenhead Dfas

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

Sep 13th 2012 10.30am

Anne will give a talk about

William Bankes to New Milton members of Nadfas

www.nadfas.org.uk

October 17 2012  2.00pm

Anne will give a talk in Shrewsbury about Laura Ashley The Woman who changed the way we thought about

clothes and houses

www.nadfas.org.uk

 

The Daffodil Maiden

BBC Radio 3
Written and Presented by Anne.

The Daffodil Maiden is the story

of the beautiful pianist Harriet

Cohen, who inspired the composer Arnold Bax when she wore a dress adorned with a single daffodil

and became his mistress for the

next 40 years.

Sorry, Listen Again

no longer available May 9th, 2010 2pm

The Richmond Book Picnic

Anne will be in conversation with

Lady Antonia Fraser to discuss

Must you Go? Antonia's Memoir

of life with Harold Pinter

Further Information from

www.ArtsRichmond.org.uk

May 13th, 2010 10-1pm

Specialist Study morning

Anne will be giving a lecture on

Jennie Churchill followed by a

supplementary lecture on

The Dollar Princesses to the

American Women of Surrey

May 24th, 2010 7 pm

Private Book Club session to

discuss Jennie Churchill

Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

Now in Paperback

John Murray £12.99

"Sebba's prose is clear, her

judgments sensible...But the

real strength of the book is its

examination of Jennie's role in shaping the character and

career of Winston."

Sunday Telegraph.

See Reviews Page

Published in the US as

American Jennie:

the Remarkable

Life of

Winston Churchill's Mother

Picture of Anne Sebba taking timeoff from her lectures on board Saga Ruby.

Anne arriving in New York on board Saga Ruby where she was a Guest Lecturer.

Life on board was unexpectedly

exciting as the ship was hit by

severe storms - the worst

Nor'easter for 15 years. New York suffered its wettest day for 104 years. But, just imagine all those rich young American women sailing across the Atlantic in the 19th century to embark on a life with an impoverished English aristocrat whom they barely knew, and all that time on the ocean to brood...

ARCHIVE NEWS AND EVENTS

See interview with Anne

28 December 2007in Women's Wear Daily

June 5th, 2008 London

Anne will be the Special Guest Speaker at the

Gala Silver Anniversary luncheon of the Kensington Chelsea Women's Club  (KCWC) held in the Mountbatten Room of the RAC Club.

The lunch is in aid of the Kensington Refuge for domestically mistreated women and  the Punch & Judy Family Centre which offers subsidised daycare for children under 5 of women training for and seeking employment.

Further information from www.kcwc.org.uk

The Chalk Garden by

Enid Bagnold opens at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre

on June 5th- August 2nd 2008

www.donmarwarehouse.com

tel 0870 060 6624 Anne has written the Programme Notes

See Books Page

To buy a copy of the specially reprinted biography of

Enid Bagnold email anne@annesebba.com

Only a few remaining

June 24th, 2008 6pm

Anne will be in conversation with Director Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse to discuss The Chalk Garden prior to the evening performance.

July 10th, 2008 Richmond

The History Girls

Anne Sebba and Mavis Cheek in conversation at Waterstones. How two women calumnied by History have had their reputations restored by two women today. Free event

To reserve a place apply to Waterstones in Richmond or anne@annesebba.com

July 11th, 2008 Kingston Lacy

Anne will be giving a lunchtime talk about William Bankes the Archaeologist as part of National Archaeology Week.

July 12th, 2008 Dartington Festival

Anne will talk about

Jennie Churchill

contact www.wayswithwords.co.uk

tel 01803 867373

July 16th, 2008 London

Jerwood Theatre Rada

post show discussion between Anne and American-Israeli playwright Iris Bahr after a one day only showing of her one woman play, DAI. A sell out at Edinburgh last year

for tickets www.jcclondon.org.uk

 

September 4th, 2008

Suffolk Book League talk

Ipswich 7.30 p.m.

October 16- 23, 2008 

Cruise

Anne will be the Guest Lecturer for Fred Olsen on the Braemar in the Western Mediterranean calling at Cannes, Rome, Barcelona and Ceuta

October 29th, 2008

Anne will give a talk to the Friends of Croydon Libraries about Jennie Churchill

November 2nd, 2008

Anne will chair an event with Philip Hensher and Elizabeth Jane Howard on

Virago Modern Classics.

November 6th, 2008

Anne will join Jonathan Aitken, Simon Hoggart and Sarah Tucker to discuss: "The most important Book ever written."

November 8-10th, 2008 Florida

Anne will be the Guest Speaker at the Florida branch of the English-Speaking Union at a Gala Anniversary dinner, Followed by a day of publicity in New York to promote Safe Passage (Mira Books)

November 25th, 2008

London

British Library Panel on Research for History Post Graduate Students

November 29th , 2008

Dorset History Centre

Anne will give a talk on William Bankes, the Exiled Collector .

Further information tel 01305 250550

January 21st, 2009

Barnes Literary Society

Anne will talk about

Women of Influence... How they acquire it and how they use it.

Laura Ashley, Mother Teresa and Jennie Churchill

8pm, The Old Sorting Office Barnes www.barnesliterarysociety.org.uk

January 22nd, 4pm 2009

Puney Ideas Exchange (Pie)

Anne will give a talk to the girls of Putney High School, London

January 28th, 8.30 pm 2009

Book club evening to discuss

Jennie Churchill

Private Event

January 30th, 2009

Anne Sebba in conversation with Lydia Syson, author of Doctor of Love, at East Sheen Library 3pm

to discuss the changing nature of biography and the cult of celebrity.

February 9, 2009

Anne in conversation with Anne de Courcy, author of a new biography of Anthony Armstrong Jones, discussing: How to write about subjects who have had many lovers? The literary and musical soiree will be at the new Musical Museum across Kew Bridge in Brentford and will include a recital by the American pianist, Miriam Brickman.

Further information from

www.artsrichmond.org.uk

February 22nd, 2009

12.30 pm - Sea of Azov

Anne will chair a discussion on

this collection of Short Stories

at Jewish Book Week with Michelene Wandor, Tamar Yellin, Karen Maitland and Tania Hershman

www.jewishbookweek.com

February 23rd, 2009 Lewes Monday Literary Club 8.00 pm Anne will give a talk about Jennie Churchill

February 28th, 2009

BBC Radio 3 12.15 pm

The Daffodil Maiden, a 50 minute drama documentary about the life of pianist Harriet Cohen written and presented by Anne Sebba.

March 3rd, 2009

Anne will give an Illustrated Talk about Jennie Churchill to the American Women of Berkshire and Surrey (AWBS)

members only

March 11th, 2009 7.30 pm

Evening Talk to the East Dorset Heritage Trust on William Bankes The Exiled Collectoer

March 19th , 2009  2pm

Anne will lecture to the Windlebrook Decorative and Fine Arts Society on William Bankes, the Exiled Collector.

Details to follow

March 19th, 2009 8pm

Panel Discussion chaired by Daniel Finkelstein London with Mark Urban, Valerie Solti, Irma Kurtz and Norman Lebrecht

April 2nd, 2009

OxfordFringe/SundayTimes Oxford Literary Festival

The Relevance of Biography to History with Susan Ronald as moderator. Panellists include

Dr Anna Beer of Oxford University (Young John Milton), Ian Kelly (Casanova, Sunday Times' Biography of the Year) and Kate Williams (Young Victoria)and Anne Sebba (Jennie  CHurchill and William Bankes).

6pm start. To book, go to www.oxfringe.com

April 23rd 2009

Anne will give an evening talk on

Women of Influence to a Working Women's Network

June 12-14th, 2009 London

Anne will be Speaking at the King's College Literary Festival as part of the Alumni Weekend.

Details to Follow
Read the interview
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/

June 30th, 2009

Anne is a judge for a U3A Creative Writing project and will present the prizes on June 30th

September 12th, 2009

Anne will be leading a workshop

on "How to get published in non-

Fiction" at the Kingston Conference

http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/

item.php?updatenum=1044

October 4th, 2009

Chewton Glen, Hampshire

Anne will give a lunchtime talk on Jennie Churchill as part of the luxury hotel's special events

programme

www.chewtonglen.com

October 15th, 2009

Anne will talk to the American Women of North West Surrey about THE DOLLAR PRINCESSES American Women who traded their money for titles and helped shore up Europe's crumbling aristocracy.

April 2007
Publication by Persephone Books of The Shuttle, a 1907 novel about an American Heiress marrying an impoverished English Aristocrat, by Frances Hodgson Burnett with a new preface by Anne Sebba. Anne was at the book's launch in New York on April 14th, taking a day off from her cruise lecturing duties on board the Saga Ruby, a ship not unlike the fictional Shuttle.

Enchanting Film of

Miss Pettigrew Lives

for a Day starring Frances

McDormand and Ciaran Hinds now released in UK based on book by Winifred Watson. The 94 year old author gave one of her last interviews to Anne Sebba in November 2000 in Newcastle.

See Journalism/ Bodice Ripping Fame aged 94  For latest news on the film see www.persephonebooks.co.uk

Safe Passage by Ida Cook

Anne has written the introduction to this remarkable true story of two English sisters who rescued Jews from the Nazis.

Reissued after 50 years.

Publication date Sept 19 2008

Mira Books £7.99

Sea of Azov

 

Five Leaves Publishing £9.99

 

"The dark menace lurking in the best fairy tales is never far from the surface..." 

 

Anne has written the introduction to a collection of short stories by writers including Tamar Yellin, Ali Smith, Nicole Krauss and Richard Zimler.

 

www.fiveleaves.co.uk

To hear a broadcast of the lecture Anne gave about William Bankes - The Exiled Collector at the Boston Athenaeum during her last US lecture tour organised by Royal Oak Foundation Go to

| William John Bankes:The Exiled Collector - WGBH

 

Spectator Books of The Year 2004:

The Exiled Collector "The stuff of which novels are made."

November 2009

USA Lecture Tour on

THE DOLLAR PRINCESSES Further information from

www.Royal-Oak.org

For tickets email jmmcahey@royal-oak.org

Nov 2 Grolier Club New York

Nov 4 with the ESU at the Women's Athletic Club, Chicago

Nov 5 Union League Club Philadelphia

Nov 6 Acorn Club lunch

Nov 7 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

November 12th, 2009

Watch Anne talking about

Laura Ashley on BBC TV's

Flog it!

 

November 15th, 2009

Anne will be on the panel for Desert Island Books at the Orange Tree Theatre chaired by Lee Langley

Further information from

www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk

November 18th, 2009

Anne will be chairing a discussion

lunch at the Savile Club with

William Shawcross talking about his

new biography of Queen Elizabeth in

aid of PEN.

Details from www.savileclub.co.uk

 

November 30th, 2009

Morning Lecture On William Bankes

the Exiled Collector to members of

U3A Hampstead Town Hall

December 1st, 2009

Anne will talk about Jennie Churchill

at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution

Further Information from

www.hlsi.net

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February 9th, 2010 7pm

Rescue and Romance

Anne will be giving a specially commissioned talk on behalf

of The Wiener Library

Love in Word

and Deed about

Ida and Louise Cook,

sisters who saved Jews

and became

Righteous Gentiles

Further information from

www.wienerLibrary.co.uk

February 23nd, 2010 7pm

Godolphin and Latymer School Inaugural Arts Festival.

Anne Sebba

in conversation with Francine Stock on Women Behind the Throne

www.godolphinandlatymer.com

or email

artsfestival@

godolphinandlatymer.com

February 28th, 2010 12.30 pm

Anne will be in conversation with Anita Diamant, bestselling author of The Red Tent, to discuss her new book Day After Night. Tickets from

www.Jewishbookweek.com

March 10, 2010

At the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum. Anne will be giving a pre dinner talk on Jennie Churchill followed by a tour of the Museum and dinner. Organised by the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers Further information

from

www.feltmakers.co.uk in aid of

Welsh Guards Afghanistan Appeal www.welshguardsappeal.com

and the Feltmakers Charitable Foundation.

April 19th, 2010 3 pm

A JUST LIFE

Anne will be in conversation

with Dr Sam Naidu, Rhodes

University, author of

a biography of Navi Pillay,

UN Commissioner

of Human Rights

at the London Book Fair

for information find Seminars at

www.LondonBookFair.co.uk