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Christina Hardyment

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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 and domestic life.[2] She is the daughter of Norwegian writer and soldier Eiliv Odde Hauge.[3] Hardyment is the author of numerous books on social history and literature and in 2015 edited a new food anthology, The Pleasures of the Table.[4] She lives in Oxford.[5]

Works

  • 1983: Dream Babies: child care from Locke to Spock London: Cape
  • 1984: Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk London: Jonathan Cape ISBN 0224029894
  • 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 ISBN 0670823651
  • 1995: Slice of Life: the British way of Eating Since 1945, London: BBC Books ISBN 0563370874
  • 2005: Malory : the knight who became King Arthur's chronicler London: HarperCollins ISBN 9780060935290
  • 2012: Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands London: British Library ISBN 9780712358743
  • 2015: Pleasures of the Table London: British Library

References

  1. ^ "Author and Journalist". Christina Hardyment. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Author and Journalist". Christina Hardyment. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Author and Journalist". Christina Hardyment. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Christina Hardyment Interviewed by Donald Sloan - Pleasures of the Table - A Literary Anthology - 23 Mar 2015". Oxford Literary Festival. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Author and Journalist". Christina Hardyment. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2015.