Ruth Manning-Sanders 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.
10 Facts About Ruth Manning-Sanders
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Ruth Manning-Sanders was born in Swansea, Wales, but the family moved to Cheshire when she was three.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders 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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One of their two children, Joan Ruth Manning-Sanders, found fame as a teenage artist in the 1920s.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders took to publishing dozens of fairy-tale anthologies, mostly during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders worked for two years with Rosaire's Circus in England.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders was noted as a poet and novelist in the years up to World War II.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders won the Blindman International Poetry Prize in 1926 for The City, and was for a time a protegee of the English author Walter de la Mare, who spent at least one holiday with the Manning-Sanders family in Cornwall.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders began collecting fairy tales into collections in 1966 with the publication of A Book of Dragons.
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Ruth Manning-Sanders wrote seven more fairytale collections titled Giants Dwarfs, Witches, Wizards, Mermaids, Ghosts and Goblins and Princes and Princesses.