Katharine Waldo Douglas,

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, (1870 – April 7, 1939) was an American novelist and translator. She was born in

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, the daughter of Henry Livingston Douglas and Hortense Pauline Armstrong. Katharine married Francis Hunter in 1894. She later married the artist

Romilly Fedden Arthur Romilly Fedden (1875–1939) was an English artist and watercolourist. The son of businessman Henry Fedden, his younger brother was the engineer Roy Fedden. Romilly studied under Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, at the Académie Julian in ...

. They lived in Chantemesle, France; their son,

Robin Fedden Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, CBE, (1908–1977) was an English writer, diplomat and mountaineer. He was the son of artist Romilly Fedden and novelist Katherine Waldo Douglas. Raised mostly in Chantemesle, France, Fedden went to Cambridge Universi ...

, later wrote a well-regarded memoir titled ''Chantemesle''. Douglas wrote several books in the early 20th century, among them ''The Sign'' (1912), ''The Spare Room'' (1913), ''Shifting Sands'' (1914), ''The Rock'' (1915), ''The Basque Country'' (1921), and ''The Peacock's Tail'' (1925). She also published ''Manor Life in Old France; From the Journal of Sire de Gouberville'' in 1933. Douglas was actively involved in relief work in London during

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and was decorated by

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for her efforts. Douglas died of injuries received in the crash of the

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near Tolosa on March 29, 1939. Romilly Fedden died in the same crash.NYT obit, April 8, 1939
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