Hatfield, Gabrielle V. 1945-

PERSONAL:

Born March 2, 1945, in Letchworth, England; daughter of Ernest (a publisher) and Mary (a homemaker) Bozman; married John Hatfield (a physician in general practice), August 25, 1970; children: Amanda Hatfield Perreau-Saussine, Sarah Hatfield Austin, Clare, Jonathan. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Girton College, Cambridge, B.A., 1966; University of Edinburgh, Ph.D., 1980. Hobbies and other interests: Country walks, reading.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Norfolk, England

CAREER:

Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, research assistant, 1966-69; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, personal assistant, 1975; University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Wellcome research fellow, 1989-91; writer, 1994—.

MEMBER:

Folklore Society.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Prize for Folklore, Folklore Society, 1993, for Country Remedies; John Thackray Medal, Society for the History of Natural History, 2005, for Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland.

WRITINGS:

Country Remedies: Traditional East Anglian Plant Remedies in the Twentieth Century, Boydell Press (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), 1994.

Memory, Wisdom, and Healing: The History of Domestic Plant Medicine, Sutton Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 1999.

Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, American Bibliographical Center-Clio Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 2004.

(With David E. Allen) Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland, Timber Press (Portland, OR), 2004.

Hatfield's Herbal: The Forgotten History of British Plants, Penguin (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Gabrielle V. Hatfield told CA: "I have loved wild flowers since I was a child, and they have continued to be a source of interest and delight to me. A lecturer at Cambridge University, Dr. Max Walters, first aroused my interest in folk uses of plants. By writing books on the subject I hope to share some of this with a wider public. The trigger for writing my first book was an accident to my neck in 1991 which, after surgery, left me unfit for many occupations."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 2004, review of Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, p. 1654.

Choice, May, 2004, J.M. Coggan, review of Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine, p. 1638.

Folklore, October, 2001, Roy Vickery, review of Memory, Wisdom, and Healing: The History of Domestic Plant Medicine, p. 246; April, 2005, Susan Drury, review of Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine, p. 102.

SciTech Book News, March, 2004, review of Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine, p. 79; September, 2004, review of Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland, p. 6.

ONLINE

E-Streams: Electronic Reviews of Science & Technology References,http://www.e-streams.com/ (May 5, 2006), Kathy Fescemyer, review of Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition; (May 5, 2006), Robert B. Ridinger, review of Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine.