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- Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig. Born in Cromford and brought up in rural Derbyshire, she was educated at the Lea School in Holloway and the Lady Manners School in Bakewell, where she developed a love for science which led to a scholarship to Manchester University to read physics. In 1906 she became the second woman honours graduate of the University. After leaving university she trained as a teacher in Cambridge and in 1908 took up the post of physics teacher at the Fulham Secondary School for Girls. Three years later she married James Arthur Uttley. The Uttleys had one son, John Taylor. James Uttley died in 1930, his health having been affected by his service in the First World War. The Uttleys lived at Downs House, 13 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire from 1924 to 1938 which now has a blue plaque to signify the association. Alice began writing to support herself and her son financially after she was widowed. Her first books were a series of tales about animals, including Little Grey Rabbit, The Little Red Fox, Sam Pig and Hare. She later wrote for older children and adults, particularly focussing on rural topics, notably in The Country Child (1931), a fictionalized account of her childhood experiences at her family farm home, Castletop, near Cromford. The close, vivid empathetic powers of nature observation exhibited in that book are combined with her interest in dreams and fantasy in one of her most popular works, A Traveller in Time (1939). Based on the Babington Plot of Anthony Babington at Dethick, near her family home, this romance mixes dream and historical fact in a story about a twentieth-century girl who is transported to the 16th century, becoming involved in a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots from nearby Wingfield Manor. Uttley later settled in Beaconsfield, in a house named Thackers after the house in A Traveller in Time. Thackers was set in a house in Dethick, Derbyshire now owned by Simon Groom (former Blue Peter presenter), functioning as a B and B, advertised on the web. She had little time for one of her competitors, Enid Blyton, describing her as a boastful and a "vulgar, curled woman". Uttley was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Manchester University in 1970 in recognition of her literary work. In 2009 her private diaries, covering the period 1932 to 1971, were published for the first time - edited by Professor Denis Judd who had previously written Uttley's biography.
- Alison Uttley war eine britische Schriftstellerin.
- アリソン・アトリー（Alison Uttley、1884年12月17日 - 1976年5月5日）は、イギリスの童話作家、ファンタジー作家。ダービーシャーのクロムフォード生まれ。アリスンとも表示される。 本名は「アリス・ジェーン (Alice Jane)」。幼少期をクロムフォードの農園で過ごし、ダービーシャー、ベイクウェルのレディ・マナーズ・スクールの奨学生として進学、オーエンズカレッジ（現在のマンチェスター大学）でダービーシャー州奨学金により物理学を専攻し、1906年開校以来2番目の女性の優等卒業生として卒業した。 その後ケンブリッジに進学し、そこで出会った科学者のジェイムス・アトリー (James Uttley) と結婚。しかし、第1次世界大戦によって健康を害していた夫は1930年に死去、息子を抱えたアリソンは生活の手段として、幼い頃を過ごしたダービーシャーの自然を題材にした物語を執筆することにした。 最初の仕事は1931年に出版されたThe Life of a Country Child（邦題『農場にくらして』）である。その後も、息子のために書いた「グレイラビット」シリーズ、タイムファンタジーのさきがけとなった1939年発表A Traveller in Time（邦題『時の旅人』）など、100タイトルを超える物語を執筆した。
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