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Amy Witting (26 January 1918 – 18 September 2001) was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= National Library of Australia, Pandora database )〕 She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".〔Craven, Peter (2001) "Tell that woman I'll publish any word she writes", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2001, p. 35〕 ==Life== Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was brought up as a Catholic. She has "melancholy memories of a repressive family life" and remembered the nuns at her school, St Brendan's College, as being "obsessed with the torments of hell".〔Jefferis, Barbara (2001) "Late bloomer, shining light: Amy Witting, Writer, 1918–2001", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2001, p. 35〕 She suffered from tuberculosis as a child.〔Connolly, Margaret (2001) "Her secret to success? Smoking and drinking", The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2001, p. 35〕 She went to Fort Street Girls' High School. She studied languages at the University of Sydney where she met, among others, James McAuley, Harold Stewart and Dorothy Auchterlonie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Flinders University )〕 Subsequently she gained a Diploma of Education at Teachers College and became a school teacher. Her tuberculosis recurred in her early adulthood, resulting in her spending time in a sanitorium which "gave her, for a time, the peace and solitude she always craved".〔 On 28 July 1934, when Witting was 16, one of her poems, written under the pseudonym De Guesclin, was published in the ''Sydney Morning Herald''.〔 Witting always wrote under a pseudonym. Her name, Amy Witting, is from a promise she made to herself to "never give up on consciousness', not be unwitting, but to always remain 'witting'".〔 Witting married Les Levick, a fellow high school teacher, in 1948, and they had one son. Greg.〔 She continued to write until her death, dying of cancer a few weeks after the publication of ''After Cynthia'', her last novel, in 2001. 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「Amy Witting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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