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A Traveller in Time

Alison Uttley

Paperback | Pages: 286 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 2262 Users | 162 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Traveller in Time
ISBN:	0140309314 (ISBN13: 9780140309317)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Penelope Taberner Cameron

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As a young and lonely teenager, I both dreamed of and desperately wanted to open a door and be magically transported into the past and thus Allison Uttley's A Traveller in Time (where young Penelope Taberner does precisely that) was right up my proverbial alley so to speak (especially since she is transported into the past of the United Kingdom).

However, as Penelope is caught up in the life and times of a rural Tudor manor house and the Babingtons' striving to save Mary Queen of Scots, both her and also the reader's infatuation with especially young and dashing Francis Babington is clouded by the knowledge of the future (of British history), that the family's plot to free Mary Queen of Scots from imprisonment is doomed to epically fail (and the first time I read A Traveller in Time knowing what would happen, being painfully aware of the fact that the Babingtons would not succeed, did bother me a tiny bit, but it also piqued my historical interest and made me engage in supplemental research on Tudor England which definitely helped me in grade nine when we were taking the history of the British and Scottish monarchies in Social Studies).

Although readers not all that versed in Tudor history (and especially the religious conflicts of the time between Church of England Queen Elizabeth I and her Roman Catholic cousin Mary Queen of Scots) might time find A Traveller in Time potentially a trifle difficult and challenging, the novel is indeed (and in my humble opinion) a simply and utterly wonderful, enlightening sojourn and romp, not only into the past to which Penelope travels, but also into 1930s rural Derbyshire from where or perhaps more to the point from whence Penelope opens her aunt's farmhouse doors into the past, into Tudor era Derbyshire. And while the pace of A Traveller in Time is definitely rather slow and descriptive, this is to and for me precisely what has always made this novel such a constant and perennial favourite (although yes, if a potential reader really does need and require constant action and adventure, then A Traveller in Time would likely not be that good a choice or that successful a reading fit).

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Title	:	A Traveller in Time
Author	:	Alison Uttley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 286 pages
Published	:	1997 by Puffin Books (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Time Travel. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Childrens. Fiction

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Ratings: 4.09 From 2262 Users | 162 Reviews

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Is there an American anywhere in this country who lives in the same house where his great-grandmother was born? This story is set in a world so foreign to us it might as well be fantasy, a world where families and the land they live on are deeply bound together -- forever, it would seem. A self-sufficient world where money is nearly irrelevant. Actually, it is the common world as people experienced it before the Industrial Revolution -- when most never travelled farther than a day's walk from

As a young and lonely teenager, I both dreamed of and desperately wanted to open a door and be magically transported into the past and thus Allison Uttley's A Traveller in Time (where young Penelope Taberner does precisely that) was right up my proverbial alley so to speak (especially since she is transported into the past of the United Kingdom). However, as Penelope is caught up in the life and times of a rural Tudor manor house and the Babingtons' striving to save Mary Queen of Scots, both her



We really loved this book. Penelope goes to live at her Aunt's manor house and farm, and finds herself slipping back in time to visit ancient relatives that are caught up in the Babington plot, seeking to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. This book was slow to get into but we loved it more and more. There are long descriptions which probably lend more to reading to self than reading aloud, but did give a great insight into daily life in Elizabethan times. We

Bravo, a great story of how you came to read it! I came upon it from a New York Review of Books advertisement for it, and it intrigued me sufficiently

Lovely writing. I felt like I was there, both in early 20th century England and In 16th century England. Also fun to look at pictures of the actual house Dethick Manor in Derbyshire, which is now a B&B. I wish I had read this years ago. I don't know how I missed it growing up. Just came across the word Dumbledores "Dumbledores boomed as they struck our dresses..." Old English for bumblebees.

Thanks for your review Choko. I'll be reading A Traveller in Time if I can get my hands on a copy. I now have Alison Uttley on my radar too.