Alison uttley biography
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Uttley, Alison (–)
Prolific British writer who is primarily known for her "Little Grey Rabbit" series. Name variations: Alice Jane Taylor Uttley. Born Alice Jane Taylor on December 17, , in Cromford, Derbyshire, England; died on May 7, , in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England; daughter of Henry Taylor (a farmer) and Hannah (Dickens) Taylor; educated at Lady Manners Grammar School, Bakewell; graduated from Manchester University, (with honors), ; attended Ladies' Training College (later Hughes Hall), Cambridge, ; married James Arthur Uttley (a civil engineer), in (died ); children: one son John (–).
Selected novels:
High Meadows (); When All Is Done ().
Selected nonfiction:
The Country Child (); Ambush of ung Days (); The Farm on the Hill (); Ten Candlelight Tales (); Country Hoard (); Country Things (); Carts and Candlesticks (); (ed.) In Praise of Country Life (); Buckinghamshire (); Plowmen's Clocks (); The Stuff of Dreams (); Here's a New D
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Alison Uttley
English children's writer, –
Alison Jane Uttley (néeTaylor; 17 December – 7 May ) was an English writer of over books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots.
Life
[edit]Born in Cromford and brought up on a farm in rural Derbyshire, Alison Taylor was educated at the Lea School in Holloway and the Lady Manners School in Bakewell, where she developed a love for science that led to a scholarship to Manchester University to read physics. In she became the second woman honours graduate of the university and made a lifetime friendship with the charismatic Professor Samuel Alexander.[2]
After university, Alison Taylor trained as a teacher at the Cambridge Training College for Women (now Hughes Hall, Cambridge). In , she became the physics mistress at Fulham County Grammar School
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Books By Alison Uttley - Author
Alice Jane Uttley () was born Alice Taylor at Castle Top Farm, near Cromford, Derbyshire, and was educated at the Lea School in Holloway and the Lady Manners School in Bakewell, where she developed a love for science which culminated in a scholarship to Manchester University to read physics. In she became only the second woman to graduate with honours in Physics at the university. Whilst an undergraduate, she lived in Ashburne House, which later became Ashburne Hall, and was the University of Manchester's first Hall of Residence for women.
Having trained as a teacher in Cambridge, she took up the post of Physics teacher at the Fulham Secondary School for Girls in In , she married James Uttley, the brother of her old university friend, Gertrude Uttley, and by whom she had one son, John Corin Uttley (). James Uttley's mental health was permanently impaired by his service in the first World War, and he took his own life in , leaving Alison with the nee