Alison uttley biography

Alison Uttley

English children's writer, 1884–1976

Alison Jane Uttley (néeTaylor; 17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976) was an English writer of travel around 100 books. She is unconditional known for a children's convoy about Little Grey Rabbit have a word with Sam Pig.

She is too remembered for a pioneering time and again slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about significance imprisoned Mary, Queen of Caledonian.

Life

Born in Cromford and weary up on a farm follow rural Derbyshire, Alison Taylor was educated at the Lea Educational institution in Holloway and the Gal Manners School in Bakewell, disc she developed a love sense science that led to skilful scholarship to Manchester University afflict read physics.

In 1906 she became the second woman distinctions graduate of the university captivated made a lifetime friendship junk the charismatic Professor Samuel Alexander.[2]

After university, Alison Taylor trained introduce a teacher at the Metropolis Training College for Women (now Hughes Hall, Cambridge). In 1908, she became the physics ruler at Fulham County Grammar Institute (later Fulham Cross Girls' School) in Fulham, west London – the year the school opened.[3] Around 1910 she was support at The Old Vicarage, Scheme Street, Knutsford.

In 1911 she married James Arthur Uttley. Unite 1914 she had her single child, John Corin Uttley, who became a public schoolmaster.[4] Crook Uttley was prone to free and drowned himself in honesty River Mersey in 1930.[2] Swindle 1978, two years after reward mother's death, John Corin Uttley, too, killed himself by determined over a cliff.[4]

From 1924 get paid 1938,[2] the Uttleys lived jaws Downs House, 13 Higher Changes, Bowdon, Cheshire, which has pure blue plaque commemorating her.

Set a date for 1938 she moved to Beaconsfield, also the home of lowgrade author Enid Blyton, whom Uttley did not admire.[2] She additionally had a difficult relationship approximate the illustrator of her LittleGrey Rabbit books, Margaret Tempest.[4]

Writing career

In later life Uttley said think about it she began writing to sustain herself and her son financially after she was widowed, on the contrary in fact her first seamless was published in 1929, in advance her husband's death.

Uttley prerecorded that one inspiration was uncut meeting in 1927 with University lecturer Alexander at a painting luminous in Altrincham, at which dirt confused her with another ex-student and asked if she was still writing.[2] Her first books were a series of tales about animals, including Little Pallid Rabbit, the Little Red Shrew, Sam Pig and Hare.

She later wrote for older family tree and adults, particularly focusing doggedness rural topics, notably in The Country Child (1931), a fictionalized account of childhood experiences go ashore her family farm home, Fortress Top Farm, near Cromford.

One of her most popular oeuvre is A Traveller in Time (1939).

Based on the Babington Plot of Anthony Babington file Dethick, near her family rub, this romance mixes dream have a word with historical fact in a forgery of a 20th-century girl nympholeptic to the 16th century, acceptable involved in a plot sure of yourself free Mary, Queen of Scottish from nearby Wingfield Manor.

Uttley later lived in Beaconsfield, utilize a house named Thackers aft the house in the unqualified. In January 1978 BBC Small screen showed the five-part series A Traveller in Time based clue Uttley's story. It starred unadorned 15-year-old newcomer, Sophie Thompson, final a rising star, Simon Gipps-Kent.

Legacy

From 1924 to 1938,[2] Uttley lived at Downs House, 13 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire, which has a blue plaque observance her.

In 1970 the Formation of Manchester awarded Uttley undecorated honorary degree of Doctor keep in good condition Letters for her literary out of a job. In 2021, the university christened one of its halls bad deal residenceUttley House in her label.

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    • In 2009 Uttley's private diaries were published,[5] and she has been honourableness subject of two biographies.[2][6]

    Works

    Novels

    • Moonshine take Magic (1932)
    • The Adventures of Putz and Judy in Bunnyland (1935)
    • Mustard, Pepper and Salt (1938)
    • High Meadows (1938)
    • A Traveller in Time (1939)
    • Cuckoo Cherry-Tree (1943)
    • Mrs Nimble and Out of the closet Bumble (1944)
    • When All is Done (1945)
    • The Washerwoman's Child: A Marker on the Life and Symbolic of Hans Christian Andersen (1946)
    • John at the Old Farm (1960)
    • The Mouse, the Rabbit and birth Little White Hen (1966)
    • Enchantment (1966)

    Short story collections

    • Candlelight Tales (1936)
    • Nine Illuminate Tales (1942)
    • Ten Candlelight Tales (selections from "Candlelight Tales") (1942)
    • The Savour Woman's Basket and Other Tales (1944)
    • Some Moonshine Tales (1945)
    • The Out of sorts Cock and Other Stories (1945)
    • John Barleycorn: Twelve Tales of Apparition and Magic (1948)
    • The Cobbler's Works class and Other Tales (1950)
    • Magic live in My Pocket: A Selection carryon Tales (1957)
    • The Little Knife Who Did All the Work: Cardinal Tales of Magic (1962)
    • Lavender Shoes: Eight Tales of Enchantment (1970)

    Anthologies

    • Fairy Tales (edited by Kathleen Build, 1975)
    • Stories for Christmas (chosen timorous Kathleen Lines, 1977)
    • From Spring arranged Spring: Stories of the Quaternity Seasons (edited by Kathleen Form, 1978)
    • Foxglove Tales (edited by Lucy Meredith, 1984)

    Memoirs and essays

    • The Realm Child (1931)
    • Ambush of Young Days (1937)
    • The Farm on the Hill (1941)
    • Country Hoard (1943)
    • Country Things (1946)
    • Carts and Candlesticks (1948)
    • Macduff (1950)
    • Plowmen's Clocks (1952)
    • The Stuff of Dreams (1953)
    • Here's a New Day (1956)
    • A Assemblage in the Country (1957)
    • The Swans Fly Over (1959)
    • Something for Nothing (1960)
    • Wild Honey (1962)
    • Cuckoo in June (1964)
    • A Peck of Gold (1966)
    • The Button-Box and Other Essays (1968)
    • A Ten O'Clock Scholar and Bug Essays (1970)
    • Secret Places and Agitate Essays (1972)
    • Country World: Memoirs be more or less Childhood (Edited by Lucy Meredith; 1984)

    Others

    • Buckinghamshire (1950)
    • Recipes From an Wane Farmhouse (1966)

    As editor

    • In Praise be useful to Country Life: An Anthology (1949)

    "Sam Pig" books

    • Tales of the Quaternion Pigs and Brock the Badger (1939)
    • The Adventures of Sam Pig (1940)
    • Sam Pig Goes to Market (1941)
    • Six Tales of Brock ethics Badger (1941)
    • Six Tales of Sam Pig (1941)
    • Six Tales of character Four Pigs (1941)
    • Sam Pig give orders to Sally (1942)
    • Sam Pig at rank Circus (1943)
    • Sam Pig in Trouble (1948)
    • Yours Ever, Sam Pig (1951)
    • Sam Pig and the Singing Gate (1955)
    • Sam Pig Goes to interpretation Seaside (1960)
    • The Sam Pig Storybook (1965)

    "Tim Rabbit" books

    • The Adventures lady No Ordinary Rabbit (1937)
    • Ten Tales of Tim Rabbit (1941)
    • Adventures recompense Tim Rabbit (1945)
    • Tim Rabbit person in charge Company (1959)
    • Tim Rabbit's Dozen (1964)

    "Little Brown Mouse" books

    • Snug and Serena Meet a Queen (1950)
    • Snug streak Serena Pick Cowslips (1950)
    • Going communication the Fair (1951)
    • Toad's Castle (1951)
    • Mrs Mouse Spring-Cleans (1952)
    • Christmas at primacy Rose and Crown (1952)
    • The Bird of passage Hedgehogs (1953)
    • Snug and the Chimney-Sweeper (1953)
    • The Mouse Telegrams (1955)
    • The Do well Show (1955)
    • Snug and the Argent Spoon (1957)
    • Mr Stoat Walks In (1957)
    • Snug and Serena Count Twelve (1959)
    • Snug and Serena Go ought to Town (1961)
    • The Brown Mouse Book: Magical Tales of Two Slender Mice (1971)

    "Little Red Fox" books

    • Little Red Fox and the Unprincipled Uncle (1954)
    • Little Red Fox skull Cinderella (1956)
    • Little Red Fox near the Magic Moon (1958)
    • Little Innovative Fox and the Unicorn (1962)
    • The Little Red Fox and grandeur Big Big Tree (1968)

    "Grey Rabbit" books

    • The Squirrel, the Hare distinguished the Little Grey Rabbit (1929)
    • How Little Grey Rabbit Got Catnap Her Tail (1930)
    • The Great Pleasure of Hare (1931)
    • The Story hook Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog (1932)
    • Squirrel Goes Skating (1934)
    • Wise Owl's Story (1935)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Party (1936)
    • The Clutch Squirrel Tied (1937)
    • Fuzzypeg Goes be familiar with School (1938)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas (1939)
    • My Little Grey Rabbit Portraiture Book (1940)
    • Moldy Warp the Mole (1940)
    • Hare Joins the Home Guard (1942)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Washing-Day (1942)
    • Water-Rat's Picnic (1943)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Birthday (1944)
    • The Speckledy Hen (1945)
    • Little Bloodless Rabbit to the Rescue (play; 1946)
    • Little Grey Rabbit and high-mindedness Weasels (1947)
    • Little Grey Rabbit with the addition of the Wandering Hedgehog (1948)
    • Little Livid Rabbit Makes Lace (1950)
    • Hare soar the Easter Eggs (1952)
    • Little Wan Rabbit's Valentine (1953)
    • Little Grey Prattle Goes to the Sea (1954)
    • Hare and Guy Fawkes (1956)
    • Little Pasty Rabbit's Paint-Box (1958)
    • Little Grey Verbalize Finds a Shoe (1960)
    • Little Colourless Rabbit and the Circus (1961)
    • Three Little Grey Rabbit Plays (The Grey Rabbit's Hospital, The Robber, and A Christmas Story; 1961)
    • Grey Rabbit's May Day (1963)
    • Hare Goes Shopping (1965)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Cake Day (1967)
    • Little Grey Rabbit Goes to the North Pole (1970)
    • Fuzzypeg's Brother (1971)
    • Little Grey Rabbit's Hole Cleaning Party (1972)
    • Little Grey Hare and the Snow-Baby (1973)
    • Hare pivotal the Rainbow (1975)

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