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Winifred Mary Foley (born Winifred Mason, 25 July 1914, Brierley, Gloucestershire, died 21 March 2009, Cheltenham) was a British writer.〔''Guardian'' obituary (Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕 ==Forest life== Winifred Foley's best known work was the autobiographical ''A Child in the Forest'' (1974), mainly an account of her childhood in the Forest of Dean, although it also includes her experiences as an adolescent domestic servant in London and elsewhere, up to the point where she meets her future husband, Sydney (died 1998), at an anti-Fascist rally in 1936.〔''A Child in the Forest'' (London: Futura, 1977), p. 253.〕 The book has been compared with Laurie Lee's ''Cider with Rosie'', but there are some differences, e.g. Foley makes clear the grinding poverty of her childhood. Its success was somewhat disconcerting for her: "I think I come out of it as a very ordinary little girl, with all the usual faults," she said. "I wouldn't have been surprised, after it had been published, if decent people hadn't wanted to know me."〔''Guardian'' obituary.〕 Her immediate family were delighted with the book, but "the honesty of her descriptions, which included stories of fleas in the bed and poor sanitation, shamed some parts of her family."〔''The Times'' obituary.〕 ''A Child in the Forest'' was serialised on BBC radio's ''Woman's Hour'' in 1973. One chapter about a job as a domestic servant was dramatised as a TV programme, ''Abide With Me'' in 1977. The success of the book allowed the Foleys to move from Huntley and buy a house at Cliffords Mesne, near Newent, Gloucestershire. According to her eldest son Chris, Winifred Foley "never lost her love of the Forest, even when she moved. My mother had a very political mind and talked about a lot of things, but she never talked about anything with more affection than her days in the Forest."〔This Is Announcements site obituary. (Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕 A documentary on her life, ''Winifred Foley – A Child from the Forest'', was broadcast on British ITV in 2001.〔''Guardian'' and ''The Times'' obituaries.〕 Subsequent works of reminiscences included ''No Pipe Dreams for Father'', ''Back to the Forest'' and ''In and Out of the Forest''. She also had some romantic fiction published. Writing fiction in her old age, she said, was "the only thing that keeps me going." She moved to Cheltenham after her husband died.〔''Telegraph'' obituary. (Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕 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「Winifred Foley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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