Christina Hardyment Explained
| Christina Hardyment |
| Birth Date: | 1946 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Occupation: | author, journalist |
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| Spouse: | Tom Griffith (1969-1991 div.) |
| Children: | 4 daughters |
| Mother: | Dinah Hardyment née McNabb |
| Father: | Eiliv Odde Hauge |
Christina Hardyment (born 1946)[1] is a British writer who has written on a wide range of subjects including parenting, food, gardens, children's books, domestic life, and British history.[2]
Personal life
Hardyment has lived mainly in England, save for a few years in South Africa, from 1951 to 1953. After completing university, she learned that her father was Norwegian writer and soldier Eiliv Odde Hauge, which led her to contact her Norwegian relatives and establish connections. She married Tom Griffith in 1969. They had four daughters, and ten grandchildren. Though on good terms, they divorced in 1991.
From 1989 to 2000 she was the founder Editor of the University of Oxford's alumni magazine Oxford Today (now edited online as Quod by Richard Lofthouse).
Her two books about Arthur Ransome inspired The Arthur Ransome Society, and she is now the Senior Executor of the Arthur Ransome Literary Estate.
Hardyment is the author of numerous books on social history and literary geography. In 2005, her biography of Sir Thomas Malory, the author of the Morte Darthurwas published by Harper Collins.
Between 2015 and 2018 she edited three literary anthologies on The Pleasures of Gardening, The Pleasures of Nature and The Pleasures of the Table.[3]
Her most recent books are Writing the Thames, published in 2016, which is about the River Thames in literature and history, and Novel Houses: Twenty legendary Literary dwellings', published in 2018.
She is now working on Novel Crimes: Deadly Literary Landscapes from Dartmoor to Cape Wrath and the third of her trilogy of novels about Alyce Chaucer, granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
She lives in Oxford, revelling in gardening and enjoying sailing and punting on the River Thames.
Works
- 1983: Dream Babies: Child Care from Locke to Spock, London: Jonathan Cape
- reprint 1984 Dream Babies: Three Centuries of Good Advice on Child Care, Harper Collins
- reprint 1995 Perfect Parents: Baby-care Advice from Past to Present, Oxford Paperbacks 2nd Ed.
- reprint 2007 and 2012 Dream Babies: Childcare Advise from John Locke to Gina Ford, London: Frances Lincoln
- 1984: Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk, London: Jonathan Cape
- 1987: The Canary-coloured Cat: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe, William Heinemann
- 1988: From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work, Cambridge: Polity Press
- 1992: Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements, London: Viking and the National Trust
- 1995: Slice of Life: The British way of Eating Since 1945, London: BBC Books
- 1997: (with Peter Jeffrey e.a.) The Christmas Collection, Naxos Audio Books, audio CD
- 1998: The Future of the Family, Orion
- 1999: On the Writer's Trail: 20 Great Literary Journeys, Natopnal Trust
- 2000: Behind the Scenes: Domestic Arrangements in Historic Houses, Abrams
- 2000: Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes, Abrams
- 2005: Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, London: HarperCollins
- 2006: Poetry for the Winter Season (selected and completed by Christina Hardyment), Naxos Audio Books, abridged audio CD ; idem 2019: unabridged audio CD
- 2010: University of Oxford: The Official Guide, University of Oxford
- 2012: Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, London: British Library
- 2012: The World of Arthur Ransome, Frances Lincoln
- 2014: Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology, London: British Library
- 2015: Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology, London: British Library
- 2016: Pleasures of Nature: A Literary Anthology, London: British Library
- 2016: Writing the Thames, Bodleian Library
- 2018: Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings, Bodleian Library
- 2018: Arthur Ransome; Christina Hardyment (introduction): The Elixir of Life, Arthur Ransome Trust
- 2022: Alyce Chaucer 1. The Serpent of Division, Oxford: Haugetun
- 2023: Alyce Chaucer 2. The Book of the Duchess, Oxford: Haugetun
- 2024: (with Clare Wille) The Serpent of Division Whole Story Audio Books, unabridged Audio CD
Notes and References
- Web site: Author and Journalist . Christina Hardyment . 4 October 2012 . 6 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191005165131/https://christinahardyment.co.uk/ . 5 October 2019 . dead .
- Web site: Author and Journalist: Books . Christina Hardyment . 4 October 2012 . 6 July 2015 . 26 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151126213834/http://www.christinahardyment.co.uk/christinahardyment-books.html . dead .
- Web site: Christina Hardyment Interviewed by Donald Sloan - Pleasures of the Table - A Literary Anthology . Oxford Literary Festival . 23 March 2015 . 6 July 2015.
