The Life and Work of Alison Uttley (1884-1976), The Creator of Little Grey Rabbit
Uttley Photograph Album
A photographic record of Alison and the Uttley Family along with friends and associates.
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Alison at Age 16. She was already a bright ‘scholarship girl’ at a local Grammar school.
Alison photographed by her fiance, James Uttley on Wimbledon Common.
A delighted Alison, after being made an Honorary Doctor of Letters, at her old university, Manchester, in 1970.
Alison’s childhood home: Castle Top Farm, Derbyshire. Photographed in 1985, but much as it was at her birth in 1884.
Gertrude Uttley and Alison enjoying a picnic at Patterdale, Cumbria.
Henry and Hannah Taylor, photographed in 1884. Alison was born nine months after her parents wedding.
Alison and her son John, photographed while on holiday in Tenby, in the 1920s.
James Uttley, photographed just after the end of the First World War.
James and John on holiday together.
John Uttley and Helen Paine, photographed on their wedding day, April 1947.
Manchester Physics department students and staff. Alison is shown in the front row, second from the left.
Margaret Tempest, whose illustrations were crucial to the success of the Little Grey Rabbit books.
Professor Samuel Alexander, who encouraged Alison to begin writing while she was at Manchester University.
John Uttley, housemaster at Stowe School, accompanying a visiting Earl Mountbatten.
Thackers, Alison’s home in Beaconsfield from 1938 until her death in 1976.
Alison receives her honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, at Manchester University in 1970.
The Uttley family photographed at Bowdon, Cheshire in 1911. Back row: Alison, James and Alice Uttley Middle row: Mr G.H. Uttley, Mrs Uttley, Gertrude Uttley Front row: George Uttley
Alison poses with her best selling, autobiographical work, The Country Child. Inset: The inscription on Alison’s gravestone.
Alison Uttley 