About Ruth Manning-Sanders
Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide. She published over 90 books in her lifetime. == Biography == === Childhood === Ruth Vernon Manning was the youngest of three daughters of John Manning, an English Unitarian minister. She was born in Swansea, Wales, but the family moved to Cheshire when she was three. As a child, she read books and wrote and acted plays with her two sisters. According to a story she tells in the foreword to Scottish Folk Tales, Manning spent her summers in a farmhouse in the Scottish Highlands named "Shian", which she says means the place where fairies live. === Education === Manning studied English literature and Shakespearean studies at Manchester University. === Marriage === After returning from a trip to Italy to recover from an illness that forced her to leave university, Manning went to Devon where she met English artist George Sanders. They married in 1911, and both changed their names to Manning-Sanders. She spent much of her early married life touring Britain in a horse-drawn caravan and working in a circus, a topic she wrote about extensively.
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