John Uttley

AU died in hospital at High Wycombe; her son had just gone on holiday and was hard to reach.

Two years after AU 's death, her son killed himself (as his father had previously done).

AU 's only child was born in the first month of the first world war, on 12 September 1914, weighing only four and a half pounds. He was christened John Corin Taylor Uttley , and...

It seems that AU 's particularly close, intimate, and possessive relationship with her son, John , may have been experienced by him as damaging, since as an adult he seems to have been anxious and...

AU published another in her series of works about her happy childhood on the family farm: Ambush of Young Days, with a quotation from a Shakespeare sonnet which her son had chosen.

Dr Irvin Kerlan of the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota , bought a substantial number of AU 's manuscripts and first editions of her works before he died in December 1963. She...