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Rosalind Murray (1890-1967) was a British-born writer and novelist known for ''The Happy Tree'' and ''The Leading Note''. Murray's parents were the classical scholar Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) and Lady Mary Henrietta Howard (1865–1956), daughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. She was one of five children, and had three brothers, Basil Murray, Denis and Stephen, and one sister, Agnes Elizabeth.〔Christopher Stray, ‘Murray, (George) Gilbert Aimé (1866–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (accessed 25 Aug 2015 ).〕 During her childhood, Rosalind spent time abroad in Italy for the purposes of her health, as letters written by her father reveal: he wrote to David Murray in 1899 that she was "absolutely forbidden to live in Glasgow or anywhere near."〔Letter to David Murray, 31 March 1899, University of Glasgow, Archives and Business Records Centre, Mu.22–f.7 ()〕 When she was three years old her father wrote to her grandmother, "It is a great help she is so intelligent",〔William H. McNeill, ''Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life''. Oxford University Press: USA, 1989.〕 and he supported her literary activity from an early age. Her first novel, ''The Leading Note'', was published before she turned twenty, in 1910. E.M. Forster wrote of it to Malcolm Darling in 1911, "The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's ''The Leading Note'' () and Wedgwood's ''Shadow of a Titan''."〔E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, (London, 1983), 1, p. 123-124; 123, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20038, accessed: 25 August 2015.〕 This was followed by ''Moonseed'' (1911), ''Unstable Ways'' (1914), ''The Happy Tree'' (1926, republished in 2014 by Persephone Books) and ''Hard Liberty'' (1929), as well as ''The Greeks'' (1931), a history book for children with a preface written by her father.〔WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMurray%2C+Rosalind&qt=hot_author〕 Rosalind married historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) in 1913. They had three sons together: Arnold, Lawrence and Philip Toynbee. Rosalind and Arnold divorced in 1946.〔‘TOYNBEE, Arnold Joseph’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 (accessed 25 Aug 2015 ).〕 In 1933, Rosalind converted to Catholicism which saw the beginning of her religious writing, including ''The Good Pagan's Failure'' (1939), ''Time and the Timeless'' (1942), ''The Life of Faith'' (1943), ''The Forsaken Fountain'' (1948) and ''The Further Journey: In My End Is My Beginning'' (1953).〔WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMurray%2C+Rosalind&qt=hot_author.〕 == References == 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「Rosalind Murray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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