|
Susan Ertz (1894 – 11 April 1985) was a British fiction writer and novelist, known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country."〔''Contemporary Authors'', Thomson Gale, August 2003. ISBN 0-7876-6635-1〕 She was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England to American parents Charles and Mary Ertz. She moved back and forth between both countries during her childhood but chose to live in the UK when she was 18. She married British Army officer Major John Ronald McCrindle, British barrister; in London in 1932. A common theme running through her work involves a female character "who is thrust out on her own from a sheltered environment into a vaguely hostile external world with which she is initially unprepared to cope. Her coming to terms with this hostile world provides the fictional interest of () novels."〔 ''The Proselyte'', the story of a London woman who marries a Mormon missionary and moves with him to Utah, was one of her most highly praised books (even Mormons felt that in "her story the hardships and sorrows of the people are clearly portrayed"〔Levi E. Young quoted in (Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Levi Edgar Young’s Literary Acquaintances ) by Kent Larsen, ''A Motley Vision, May 20, 2012. Accessed May 21, 2012.〕). Ertz's ''Woman Alive'' is a science fiction novel set after all women other than the titular heroine have perished in a plague.〔Judith Merril, "What do you Mean? Science? Fiction?" in Thomas D. Clareson, ''SF: The Other Side of Realism''. Popular Press, 1971. ISBN 0879720239, (p. 77).〕〔Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira, ''I Am The Other: Literary Negotiations Of Human Cloning'' Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 0313320063 (p.73).〕 One of her later works, ''In the Cool of the Day'', was the source of an eponymous movie in 1963, starring Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, and Angela Lansbury. ==Works== *''Madame Claire'' 1923 *''Nina'' 1924 *''After Noon'' 1926 *''The Wind of Complication'' (short stories) 1927 *''Now East, Now West'' 1927 *''The Milky Way'' 1929 (under the name, ''The Galaxy'', this book was on the U.S. best seller fiction list for 1929.) *''The Story of Julian'' 1931 *''The Proselyte'' 1933 *''Now We Set Out'' 1935 *''Woman Alive, But Now Dead'' 1935〔Bibliographic information from: 〕 *''No Hearts to Break'' 1937 *''Black, White and Caroline'' 1938 *''Big Frogs and Little Frogs'' (short stories) 1939 *''One Fight More'' 1939 *''Anger in the Sky'' 1943 *''Mary Hellam'' 1947 *''The Prodigal Heart'' 1950 *''The Undefended Gate'' 1953 (published in the U.S. as ''Invitation to Folly'') *''Charmed Circle'' 1956 *''In the Cool of the Day'' 1960 *''Week Long Summer's Lease'' 1972 *''The Philosopher's Daughter'' 1976 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「Susan Ertz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|