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Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 194219 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including ''English Cottages'', ''Goodbye London'', ''The Perfect English House'', ''Over the Hills and Far Away'' and ''The Dangerous Edge of Things''. Her television documentaries included ''The Englishwoman and the Horse'', and ''The Front Garden''. ''Unwrecked England'', based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for ''The Oldie''〔(''The Oldie Magazine'' website ), accessed 22 August 2014.〕 since 1992, was published in 2009. Lycett Green has been described as "the finest writer of our time on the English countryside". She edited and introduced her father John Betjeman’s letters and prose in three volumes to critical acclaim. She was a commissioner of English Heritage for nine years and her proudest achievement was the role she played in the regeneration of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-On-Trent. She was a member of the Performing Rights Society through her writing of lyrics for songs and was a Contributing Editor to ''Vogue'' from 1987. She was part of the original team who started ''Private Eye''. Nicky Haslam nominated Lycett Green as the living person he most admired ("beautiful, brave, strong, clever, loving and loved").〔''The Guardian''; 26 October 2002.〕 ==Early years== Candida Rose Betjeman was born on 22 September 1942 in Dublin where her father, John Betjeman (later Sir John), was wartime press attaché at the British Embassy.〔Girvin, Brian (2006) ''The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939–45'' 〕 Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, a friend of her father, celebrated her birth with a poem "Candida". Her mother, the Hon. Penelope Valentine Hester Betjeman (née Chetwode; 1910–1986), was the daughter of Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode (later Lord Chetwode) (1869–1950). Her paternal grandparents, Ernest and Mabel ("Bess") Betjemann (her father dispensed with the second "n"), died in 1934 and 1951 respectively. In 2007 Candida attributed to Ernest Betjemann, said by her father to be a hater of verse, a poem found in the log book of a yacht he had sailed on the Norfolk Broads in the 1920s.〔''The Strenuous Lfe'': "On the cabin roof lie I / Gazing into vacancy ..." (''The Times'', 6 January 2007)〕 She regretted not asking her father more about his parents: "but it's not vital when you're young".〔''The Times'', 6 January 2007.〕 An elder brother, Paul, was born in 1937. The Betjemans returned to England in 1943, moving from Uffington to Farnborough, Berkshire in 1945, and then to Wantage in 1951 (Uffington and Wantage were part of Berkshire at the time, but are now part of Oxfordshire). 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「Candida Lycett Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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