Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales by Denis Judd

Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales by Denis Judd

An acclaimed biography of one of Britain's most popular writers -- .

Anyone who grew up with the stories of the Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit - books the Queen read to her children, six million copies sold in the first thirty yeaS - will be enchanted to learn their secret, which is that all three characters were self-portraits.. as Denis Judd makes clear in this fascinating biography.

Little was known about Alison Uttley until the welcome arrival of this authorised biography

Denis Judd has written a very full and enthralling biography of Alison Uttley.

He shows Alison Uttley as a self-deluding romantic, a shrewd and quarrelsome businesswoman and a compulsive housekeeper, patching and jam-making in an heroically untidy kitchen ... it is impossible not to think of her as a sorceress, a storyteller whose tales were produced only at mortal cost.

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Denis Judd is an acclaimed author, having written biographies of Prince Philip, Nehru, Joseph Chamberlain and George V. His last publication was The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley, 1932-1971 (2009).

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ISBN 13	9780719084560
ISBN 10	0719084563
Title	Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales
Author	Denis Judd
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2010-06-09
Number of pages	320
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