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Janie Hampton (born as Anderson, 14 March 1952) is a British author, best known for her biography of Joyce Grenfell and social history books ''The Austerity Olympics'' and ''How the Girl Guides Won the War''. ==Biography== Janie Hampton is the penultimate daughter of the author Verily Anderson and the playwright Donald Clive Anderson. Her siblings include the author Rachel Anderson and the television producer Eddie Anderson. She has been married since 1971 and has four children.〔"Four generations", ''Oxford Mail'', 28 March 2014.〕 While living on a small-holding in Shropshire in the 1970s〔"Self-sufficiency", ''Birmingham Sunday Mercury'', 29 September 1973.〕 Hampton designed and made clothes that she sold in London, Los Angeles and Rome. Her customers included musician Robert Plant and author Louisa Young.〔"From rags to riches", ''Kidderminster Shuttle'', 15 August 1978〕 In 1980 the Hamptons moved to Zimbabwe,〔''A Family Outing in Africa'', Macmillan, 1988.〕 where she studied for a BA in Human Sciences,〔"Third World Studies for Real", Sesame (Open University), Vol. 1 no. 3, September 1982.〕 wrote books and articles on health issues,〔Utano, ''Manicaland Provincial Health Authority'', 1982–85.〕〔"How to do it write", ''Open Eye'', 2005.〕 and was the Women's Editor of the (''Manica Post'' ).〔"Focus on Women", ''Manica Post'', July 1983 – November 1984.〕 After her return to Britain in 1985, she produced ''The Medical Programme'' and ''Focus on Africa'' for the BBC World Service. In 1988 she gained an MSc in International Health from the (Institute of Child Health ), London. Her thesis was on the health and development of pre-school children, researched while living in the remote Honde Valley, Zimbabwe〔."Play and development in rural Zimbabwean children", ''Early Child Development and Care'', pp. 1-61, Vol. 47, 1989.〕 In 1991, the British Overseas Development Administration (now the Department for International Development) commissioned Hampton to help develop its policy on international women's health. She then planned health projects in Africa, South America and Asia.〔"Friday Life", ''Oxford Mail'', 28 February 2014.〕 In 1992 Hampton was elected onto the founding committee of (Writers in Oxford ) and became its chair in 2003.〔"The story behind the writers", ''Oxford Times'', 11 October 2002.〕〔"Happy birthday to writer's group", ''Oxford Times'', 20 November 2012.〕 As part of the ''2001 Year of the Artist'' she was the first Arts Council sponsored writer-in-residence in a pub.〔"More print than pint", ''Oxford Mail'', 13 January 2001.〕〔"Author in pub is novel attraction", ''Reading Morning Advertiser'', 15 January 2001.〕 She is a member of the Combination Room at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.〔Annual Report, Lucy Cavendish College, 2012.〕 In 2009, she founded the (Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust ), which aims to restore the ship MV ''Chauncy Maples into a mobile clinic for Lake Malawi.〔("Janie's floating clinic is a dream come true" ), ''The Sunday Post'', Scotland, 28 June 2013.〕 She resigned from the trust in 2013.〔("Janie Hampton announces her retirement from the trust" ), Chauncy Maples, Lake Malawi's Clinic.〕 In 2014, she became patron of the (Malawi Association UK ) Achievers Award. 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「Janie Hampton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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