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Ruth Ainsworth (Ruth Gallard Ainsworth) was born on 16 October, 1908 in Manchester, England, is a British writer. Discover Ruth Ainsworth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Ruth Gallard Ainsworth
Occupation Writer
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 16 October 1908
Birthday 16 October
Birthplace Manchester, England
Date of death 16 May, 1984
Died Place N/A
Nationality Manchester

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Parents Percy Clough Ainsworth and Gertrude Fisk
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1908

Ruth Gallard Ainsworth (16 October 1908 – 16 May 1984) was a British writer, of over seventy children's books and numerous radio scripts.

Ainsworth was born in Manchester, in 1908, the second child (and first daughter) of Methodist minister Rev. Percy Clough Ainsworth and Gertrude Fisk of Pendleton, her older brother being mycologist Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth.

1909

Ainsworth's father died on 1 July 1909 from typhoid aged 36.

Soon after the family moved to 2 High Cliff Villas, Cobbold Road, Felixstowe.

1924

Ainsworth enrolled at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone where she studied between September 1924 and July 1926.

She later attended the Froebel Training Centre in Leicester.

1935

On 29 March 1935 she married chemist Frank Lathe Gilbert in Leicester.

1936

On 7 September 1936, while in Lancaster, she gave birth to twin sons: Christopher Gallard Gilbert (furniture historian and museum curator) and Oliver Lathe Gilbert (urban ecologist and lichenologist).

She had a third son Richard Frank Gilbert.

The Gilberts initially settled in London, but their house was bombed in World War II.

They relocated to Porthmadog.

Latterly the Gilberts lived in Corbridge, Northumberland.

1965

Some or all of the books were republished with slightly different titles, for example Pony Pony (London: Bancroft, 1965) as Pony, pony : my sixth reading book (Bristol: Purnell, 1983) while still in "Books for me to read. Blue series."

Most or all of these books were published in the initial teaching alphabet.

1984

Ainsworth died in 1984 aged 75.

Her ashes were scattered in a stream in Wasdale.

Ainsworth re-told classic fairy tales, as well as new stories of her own.

Ainsworth was a scriptwriter for Listen with Mother, a popular BBC children's programme.

Some were published as.

Some of her stories were televised as marionette plays.

The series "Books for me to read", written with Ronald Ridout, has the secondary title "A book for me to read" on each cover.

It is not clear if the color sub-series ("Red book 1" etc.) is used throughout its history.