Anne Ridler
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Anne Elizabeth Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – October 15, 2001) was a British writer and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941).
In 1994, Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) was published.
She moved to libretto work and verse plays later in life, but receiving an OBE in 2001 made her return to libretto work and verse plays later in life.
Early life
Ridler was the niece of Henry Bradby, the housemaster at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where she was born. Violet Bradby, a born Milford girl, wrote bestselling children's books and was Humphrey S. Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford. Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, a brother of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury, was one of her great-grandfathers. G. F. Bradby, her uncle, was the author of The Lanchester Tradition (1919), while Barbara Bradby was the joint author of The Village Labourer (1911). Letitia Chitty, a structural engineer and the first female associate of the Royal Aeronautical Society, composer Robin Milford, and the Rev. Dick Milford, vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, is the patron of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Life
Anne Bradby was educated at Downe House School and later published a biography of her headmistress Olive Willis. She obtained a diploma in journalism at King's College London after six months in Florence and Rome.
Vivian Ridler, Oxford University's future Printer, died in 1938, but she and the Bunhill Press, London, had two daughters and two sons.
Charles Williams: The Image of the City and Other Essays (1958) and Charles Williams: Selected Writings (1961). She was on the edge of the Inklings clan as a Christian and friend and reporter of C.S. Lewis. She wrote "I Who Am Here Dissembled," a short but powerful poem that was closely associated with T. S. Eliot's poems, as part of an anthology T. S. Eliot. A Symposium in honor of his sixtieth birthday.
Ridler wrote Cain (1943) and Shadow Factory: A Nativity Play (1945), for a brief period in the 1940s.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse awarded her in 1954, 1956, and 1955, the Union League Civic and Arts Poetry Prize. She was one of four writers to receive the Society of Authors' Cholmondeley Award in 1998.