Anne Marie Huth Jackson was born at
Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1909, the daughter of the banker
Frederick Huth Jackson and the poet
Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. She grew up in Aix-les Bains,
London and
Sussex and was educated at
Cheltenham Ladies College. She went on to
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, recalling her time there as "blissful days" and retaining Oxford friendships throughout her life. In 1930, she married Christopher Fremantle, a painter and follower of
Gurdjieff and
Ouspensky. The couple eventually had three children, including the art historian
Richard Fremantle. Anne Fremantle stood as a
Labour Party candidate in the
1935 UK general election, challenging
Alfred Duff Cooper's safe Conservative seat of
Westminster St George's, and managed not to lose her deposit. At the start of the war, she worked in London as an ambulance driver and
BBC broadcaster. For the safety of her children, she moved to the United States, working in the
British Embassy in Washington. She stayed in the US after the war, taking American citizenship, and converting to
Roman Catholicism. The couple lived in
New York, but increasingly spent time each year in
Paris and
Mexico, where Christopher Fremantle lectured to other followers of Gurdjieff. Eventually they bought property in Mexico. After her husband's death, Anne Fremantle returned to live in London, and died there on 26 December 2002, at the age of 93. ==Works==