Anne Ridler

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Not to be confused with the actress and second wife of Emrys Jones.

Anne Ridler
Barbara Bradby (aunt)
  • Robin Milford
    • (cousin)

    Anne Barbara Ridler

    verse plays; it was later in life that she earned official recognition, receiving an OBE in 2001.[1]

    Early life

    Ridler was the daughter of

    Barbara Bradby was the joint author of The Village Labourer (1911). Her cousins included Letitia Chitty, structural analytical engineer and first female fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society,[3] composer Robin Milford and the Rev. Dick Milford, vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.[4]

    Life

    Anne Bradby was educated at Downe House School and later published a biography of her headmistress, Olive Willis. After six months in Florence and Rome, she took a diploma in journalism at King's College London.

    In 1938, she married

    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

    Inklings group. Also closely associated with T. S. Eliot, she wrote a short but powerful poem, "I Who am Here Dissembled", full of allusions to images in Eliot's own poems, for the anthology T. S. Eliot: A Symposium in honour of his sixtieth birthday.[5]

    For a short time in the 1940s, Ridler was also a successful verse dramatist, writing such plays as Cain (1943) and Shadow Factory: A Nativity Play (1945).

    Poetry: A Magazine of Verse awarded her in 1954 the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and in 1955 the Union League Civic and Arts Poetry Prize. In 1998 she was one of four poets who received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors.[6]

    References

    1. ^ "No. 56237". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 2001. p. 12.
    2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76404. Retrieved 27 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
      required.)
    3. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8
      . Retrieved 27 September 2020.
    4. ISBN 9781870882187
    5. ^ Ridler, Anne (1948). "I Who am Here Dissembled". In March, Richard and Tambimuttu (ed.). T. S. Eliot: A Symposium. London: Editions Poetry. p. 189.
    6. ISBN 978-1-4381-4074-2
      .

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