|
Clare Margaret Mulley (born 31 July 1969) is a British biographer, known for documenting the life of Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children, and has received the ''Daily Mail'' Biographers' Club Prize for ''The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb'' (2009). In 2012 her biography of World War II SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek, a.k.a. Christine Granville, ''The Spy Who Loved: the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II'', was published by Macmillan.〔 It has since been published in the USA (St Martin's 2013) and Poland (Swiat Ksiazki, 2013). In 2013 Mulley was presented with Poland's Bene Merito award by the Foreign Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski. ==Life== Clare Mulley was born in 1969 in Luton, England. In 2006 she graduated from the University of London with a distinction for her master's degree in Social and Cultural History.〔 Her dissertation was on ''Affection or Affectation: The Role and Rhetoric of Maternalism in the Development of Women's Social Action in Victorian Britain''.〔 She lives in Essex, England, with her family. Mulley has worked with Save the Children and Sightsavers International, raising charitable donations on behalf of the organisations. She has served as a member of the financial advisory board of the World Development Movement, a membership organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in southern countries identified according to the global north-south divide. She was most recently a trustee of the national charity, (Standing Together against Domestic Violence ). Mulley is a member of such groups as the Social History Society, the (Voluntary Action History Society ), Women's History Network, Royal Society of Literature, Biographer's Club, Society of Authors, English PEN, Walden Writers, Fawcett Society and National Secular Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Author )〕 She is also a seasoned public speaker and literary chair, with extensive experience making presentations and lecturing in academic conferences, literary festivals and museums throughout the UK and in Poland, including at the Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum, Special Forces Club and Warsaw Uprising Museum. 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「Clare Mulley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|