- Anne Ridler
Anne Barbara Ridler (née Bradby) (
30 July 1912 –15 October 2001 ) was a Britishpoet , andFaber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber "A Little Book of Modern Verse" withT. S. Eliot (1941). Her "Collected Poems" (Carcanet Press ) were published in 1994. She turned tolibretto work andverse play s; it was later in life that she earned official recognition, receiving an OBE in 2000.Family
Ridler was the daughter of H. C. Bradby, a housemaster at
Rugby School , where she was born. Her mother, Violet Bradby, born Milford, wrote popular children's stories and was the sister ofHumphrey Milford , Publisher to theUniversity of Oxford . One of her great-grandfathers wasCharles Richard Sumner ,Bishop of Winchester , a brother ofJohn Bird Sumner ,Archbishop of Canterbury . Her uncle G. F. Bradby, was the author of "The Lanchester Tradition" (1919), while her aunt Barbara Bradby was the joint author of "The Village Labourer" (1911). Her cousins included the composerRobin Milford and the Rev. Dick Milford, vicar of theUniversity Church of St Mary the Virgin ,Oxford .Life
Anne Bradby was educated at
Downe House School and later published a biography of her headmistress,Olive Willis . After six months inFlorence andRome , she took a diploma in journalism atKing's College London .In 1938, she married
Vivian Ridler , the future Printer to Oxford University (1958-78), but then the manager of the Bunhill Press,London , and they had two daughters and two sons.She edited "Charles Williams: The Image of the City and other Essays" (1958) and "Charles Williams: Selected Writings" (1961). A Christian and friend and correspondent of
C. S. Lewis , she was on the edge of theInklings group.Television Roles
External links
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,581905,00.html Guardian Unlimited obituary]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,574760,00.html Guardian article]
* [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=30 Poetry Archive]
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