It was an account of the 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.
In 2009, Sebba wrote and presented The Daffodil Maiden on BBC Radio 3. She has been cited as an authority on biography. Since working as a correspondent for Reuters, Sebba has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Times Higher Education Supplement and The Independent. Sebba's books have been translated into several languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Czech and Chinese. Her discovery of an unpublished series of letters from Wallis Simpson to her second husband Ernest Simpson, shortly before her eventual marriage to the former King, Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, formed the basis of a Channel 4 documentary, The Secret Letters, first shown on UK television in August 2011, and also a biography of Simpson, That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor. She wrote her first book while living in New York City and now lives in London. She read history at King's College London (1969–72) and, after a brief spell at the BBC World Service in Bush House, joined Reuters as a graduate trainee, working in London and Rome, from 1972 to 1978. She is the author of nine non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children, and several introductions to reprinted classics.Īnne Sebba ( née Rubinstein) was born in London on 31 December 1951. Anne Sebba ( née Rubinstein, born 1951) is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist.
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