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Arthur George Street (7 April 1892 – 21 July 1966), who wrote under the name of A. G. Street, was an English farmer, writer and broadcaster. His books were published by the literary publishing house of Faber and Faber. His best-known book was ''Farmer's Glory'', describing his time in Canada and how he returned to Wiltshire. ==Life and work== The son of a Wiltshire tenant farmer, Street was born at Ditchampton Farm, Wilton, Wiltshire, near Salisbury, where he eventually took over the tenancy. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, where agriculture was part of the curriculum, and left school in 1907 at the age of sixteen. He then spent some years learning farming from his father.〔Pamela Street, ''My Father A. G. Street'' (1969)〕 He later wrote that: Next, Street spent some years working on a farm in Canada, arriving in Winnipeg in 1910. There he learnt a more expansive form of agriculture than he knew at home.〔John Bowle, '' The imperial achievement: the rise and transformation of the British Empire'' (1977), p. 406〕 First of all a working farmer, Street began to try his hand at writing as a way to supplement his farm income when it was severely reduced by prices falling during the great agricultural depression of the 1920s and 1930s.〔 He continued to farm after he became a popular author. He portrayed farm life in the south of England without idealizing it, and his use of dialect strengthens his imagery of rural life.〔Sonya O. Rose , ''Which people's war?: national identity and citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945'', p. 201 (2003)〕 His books were mainly light fiction, often based on the Wiltshire farming community and to some degree autobiographical. His book ''Strawberry Roan'' was turned into a film.〔''(Strawberry Roan )'' at imdb.com〕 A critical work of 2006 brackets him with George Sturt, Adrian Bell, Henry Williamson, W. H. Hudson, H. J. Massingham, H. V. Morton, Constance Holme and Mary Webb.〔Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt, & Lynne Thompson, ''The English countryside between the wars: regeneration or decline?'' (2006), p. 4〕 He wrote a weekly column for Farmers Weekly for thirty year. He was also a prolific radio broadcaster, appearing on ''The Brains Trust'' and many other BBC radio programmes, and a member of the Empire Poetry League. During the Second World War, he was a member of the Home Guard, on one occasion joining the chase for a missing German parachutist.〔Angus Calder, ''The people's war; Britain, 1939–1945'' (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969), p. 152〕 Street is himself the subject of a radio programme by the poet Sean Street.〔Sean Street, ''The Dymock poets'' (1994), p. 168〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. G. Street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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