Christina Hardyment (born 1946) is a British writer who has written on a wide range of subjects including

parenting Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child and not exclusively for ...

, food,

gardens A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate bot ...

children's books A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younge ...

, domestic life, and British history.

Personal life

Hardyment 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 Eiliv Odde Hauge (10 November 1913 – 3 July 1971) was a Norwegian military officer, screenwriter, author and museum director. During World War II, he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement. Biography Hauge was born at Stranda in Møre ...

, 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. Hardyment is the author of numerous books on social history and literature. In 2005, her biography of Sir thomas Malory, the author of the ''Morte Darthur.'' In 2015 she edited a new food anthology, ''The Pleasures of the Table''. She is a journalist and occasionally writes book reviews. Her most recent books are ''Writing the Thames,'' published in 2016, which is about the River Thames in literature in history, and ''Novel Houses:'' ''Twenty legendary literary dwellings','' published in 2018. and widely reviewed''.'' She is now working on a trilogy of novels about Alyce Chaucer, granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. From 1989 to he was the founder Editor of the University of Oxford's alumni magazine ''Oxford Today'' (noe edited online by Richard Lofthouse. She is the Senior Executor of the Arthur Ransome Literary Estate. She review audiobooks weekly for The Times Saturday Review. She lives in

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

, revelling in gardening and enjoying sailing and punting on the River Thames.

Works

* 1983: ''Dream Babies: child care from Locke to Spock'' London: Cape, reprinted in 2012 as ''Dream Babies: child care from Locke to Gina Ford,'' LondonFrancis Lincoln * 1984: ''Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk'' London: Jonathan Cape * 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 * 2005: ''Malory : the knight who became King Arthur's chronicler'' London: HarperCollins * 2010: ''University of Oxford: The Official Guide'', University of Oxford, * 2012: ''Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands'' London: British Library * 2013: The World of Arthur Ransome: Frances Lincoln, * 2015: ''Pleasures of the Table'' London: British Library * 2016: ''Writing the Thames'', Bodleian Library * 2018: ''Novel Houses', Bodleian Library

References

Women food writers 1946 births Living people British women writers {{UK-writer-stub