Christina Matsala

**Christina Hardyment** (an haife ta a shekara ta 1946)  marubuciya ce 'yar Birtaniya wadda ta yi rubutu kan fannoni daban-daban, ciki har da kula da yara, abinci, lambuna, littattafan yara, rayuwar gida, da kuma tarihin Birtaniya. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Hardyment ta zauna a Ingila ne kawai, sai dai na tsawon shekaru kaɗan a Afirka ta Kudu, daga 1951 zuwa 1953. Bayan kammala jami'a, ta ji cewa mahaifinta marubuciya ce kuma soja 'yar ƙasar Norway Eiliv Odde Hauge, wanda hakan ya sa ta tuntuɓi danginta 'yan ƙasar Norway kuma ta ƙulla alaƙa.  Ta auri Tom Griffith a shekarar 1969. Suna da 'ya'ya mata huɗu, da jikoki goma. Duk da cewa suna da kyakkyawar alaƙa, sun sake a shekarar 1991.

Daga 1989 zuwa 2000 ita ce ta kafa Editan mujallar tsofaffin ɗalibai ta Jami'ar Oxford *Oxford Today* (wanda yanzu ake gyarawa a yanar gizo kamar Quod ta Richard Lofthouse).

Littattafan ta guda biyu game da Arthur Ransome sun yi wahayi zuwa ga Ƙungiyar Arthur Ransome, kuma yanzu ita ce Babbar Jami'ar Gudanar da Harkar Adabi ta Arthur Ransome.

Hardyment ita ce marubucin littattafai da dama kan tarihin zamantakewa da kuma yanayin ƙasa na adabi. A shekarar 2005, Harper Collins ne ya buga tarihin rayuwarta na Sir Thomas Malory, marubucin *Morte Darthur* .

Tsakanin 2015 da 2018 ta gyara littattafai uku na adabi a kan "The Deasures of Gardening", "The Deasures of Nature" da kuma *The Deasures of the Tebur* . 

Littattafan da ta fi kwanan nan su ne Writing the Thames, wanda aka buga a shekarar 2016, wanda ke magana game da Kogin Thames a cikin adabi da tarihi, da kuma Novel Houses: Twenty legendary Literary Housings', wanda aka buga a shekarar 2018 .

Tana zaune a Oxford, tana jin daɗin aikin lambu kuma tana jin daɗin yin tafiya a kan ruwa da kuma yin tsalle a kan Kogin Thames. 

## Ayyuka

* 1983: *Dream Babies: Child Care from Locke to Spock*, London: Jonathan Cape 
** reprint 1984 *Dream Babies: Three Centuries of Good Advice on Child Care*, Harper Collins 
** reprint 1995 *Perfect Parents: Baby-care Advice from Past to Present*, Oxford Paperbacks 2nd Ed. ISBN&nbsp;
** reprint 2007 and 2012 *Dream Babies: Childcare Advise from John Locke to Gina Ford*, London: Frances Lincoln 
* 1984: *Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk*, London: Jonathan Cape 
* 1987: *The Canary-coloured Cat: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe*, William Heinemann 
* 1988: *From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work*, Cambridge: Polity Press 
* 1992: *Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements*, London: Viking and the National Trust 
* 1995: *Slice of Life: The British way of Eating Since 1945*, London: BBC Books 
* 1997: (with Peter Jeffrey e.a.) *The Christmas Collection*, Naxos Audio Books, audio CD 
* 1998: *The Future of the Family*, Orion 
* 1999: *On the Writer's Trail: 20 Great Literary Journeys*, Natopnal Trust 
* 2000: *Behind the Scenes: Domestic Arrangements in Historic Houses*, Abrams 
* 2000: *Literary Trails: British Writers in Their Landscapes*, Abrams 
* 2005: *Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler*, London: HarperCollins 
* 2006: *Poetry for the Winter Season* (selected and completed by Christina Hardyment), Naxos Audio Books, abridged audio CD  ; idem 2019: unabridged audio CD
* 2010: *University of Oxford: The Official Guide*, University of Oxford 
* 2012: *Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands*, London: British Library 
* 2012: *The World of Arthur Ransome*, Frances Lincoln 
* 2014: *Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology*, London: British Library 
* 2015: *Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology*, London: British Library 
* 2016: *Pleasures of Nature: A Literary Anthology*, London: British Library 
* 2016: *Writing the Thames*, Bodleian Library 
* 2018: *Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings*, Bodleian Library 
* 2018: Arthur Ransome; Christina Hardyment (introduction): *The Elixir of Life*, Arthur Ransome Trust 
* 2022: *Alyce Chaucer 1. The Serpent of Division*, Oxford: Haugetun 
* 2023: *Alyce Chaucer 2. The Book of the Duchess*, Oxford: Haugetun 
* 2024:  *Alyce Chaucer 3. Murder Will Out*, Oxford: Haugetun 
* 2024: (with Clare Wille) *The Serpent of Division* Whole Story Audio Books, unabridged Audio CD 

## Manazarta