In 1914 she had her only child, John Corin Uttley, who later married and became a public schoolmaster. Around 1910 she was living at The Old Vicarage, King Street, Knutsford. Īfter university, Alison Taylor trained as a teacher at the Cambridge Training College for Women (now Hughes Hall, Cambridge) and in 1908 became a physics teacher at Fulham Secondary School for Girls in West London. In 1906 she became the second woman honours graduate of the university and made a lifetime friendship with the charismatic Professor Samuel Alexander. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots.īorn in Cromford and brought up in rural Derbyshire, Alison Uttley 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. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. Honorary Doctor of Letters, Manchester UniversityĪlison Uttley (17 December 1884 – ), née Alice Jane Taylor, was an English writer of over 100 books.
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