Ruth Manning-Sanders (
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Maiden name
Manning
Short biography
Born in South Wales, as a child Manning-Sanders lived in Chesire. She was educated at Manchester University and was first published by the Hogarth Press. After marrying George Sanders in 1911, they spent much of their time working in a circus and touring Britain in a horse-drawn caravan. Eventually, the family moved to Land's End, Cornwall. She wrote novels, short stories and verse, as well as travelogues and historical texts, and published anthologies of fairy-tales.
Works in our collections
Date of birth (approx)
c. 1888
Place of birth
Swansea, Swansea
Date of death (approx)
c. 1988
Place of death
Penzance, Cornwall
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