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Ruth M. Arthur

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born

in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom

May 26, 1905

died

March 06, 1979

gender

female

genre

Children's Books

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Working name of UK writer Ruth Mabel Arthur Higgins, long active as a children's author, her career beginning with Friendly Stories (collection, 1932). Most of her early work, like the Brownie sequence -- The Crooked Brownie (1936), The Crooked Brownie in Town (1942) and The Crooked Brownie at the Seaside (1942) is for younger children, but with Dragon Summer (1962) and A Candle in her Room (1966) she began to produce the time travel romances for which she become best-known. They typically feature a teenage girl on the verge of adolescence, a crisis dramatically resolved through her absorption in an earlier, exemplary life situation. In Requiem for a Princess (1967) an adopted girl time travels into 16th-century Spain and into the soul of a...more

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Ruth M. Arthur's Books

Average rating: 4.16 · 455 ratings · 92 reviews · 19 distinct works · Similar authors

	A Candle in Her Room by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem for a Princess by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saracen Lamp by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumn People by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whistling Boy by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1969	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait of Margarita by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1968	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Old Magic by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1977	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Candlemas by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Dark Thorn by Ruth M. Arthur, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Daughter, Nicola by Ruth M. Arthur, Fermin Rocker (Illustrator) 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars