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Ruth M. Arthur


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom
May 26, 1905

Died
March 06, 1979

Genre
Children's Books


Working name of UK writer Ruth Mabel Arthur Huggins, 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 write the haunting fantasy-tinged adolescent novels for which she became best known. Often featuring first-person narratives spanning multiple generations filled with echoes of centuries past. ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,117 ratings · 202 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
A Candle in Her Room
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4.43 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1966 — 13 editions
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Requiem for a Princess
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4.16 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1967 — 8 editions
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The Saracen Lamp
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4.40 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions
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The Autumn People
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4.25 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions
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Portrait of Margarita
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3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1968 — 9 editions
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After Candlemas
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4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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The Whistling Boy
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4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions
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An Old Magic
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4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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My Daughter, Nicola
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3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1965 — 4 editions
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On the Wasteland
3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions
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