Ann Bridge

(1889 - 1974)

The seventh child of a seventh child, Ann Bridge was born Mary Dolling Sanders in 1889 in Hertfordshire. Her husband, a diplomat, worked for two years at the British Foreign Office in Peking, a setting Bridge began using for her fiction. After leaving China in 1927, she spent two decades traveling in Dalmatia, Albania, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, and France. In the 1970s, toward the end of her life, she published a series of thrillers featuring an amateur female detective. She died in 1974 at her home in Oxford.