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R. C. Ashby
| Full Name: |
Ruby
Constance Annie
Ferguson |
| Born: |
June 28, 1899
Reeth, North Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Died: |
November 11, 1966 |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
Ruby Constance Annie Ferguson, née Ashby was an English writer of popular fiction, including children's literature, romances and mysteries as R. C. Ashby and Ruby Ferguson. She is best known today for her novel Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary and her Jill books, a series of Pullein-Thompsonesque pony books for children and young adults.
Ruby Constance Annie Ashby was born in Hebden Bridge and raised in Reeth, North Yorkshire. Her parents were Ann Elizabeth, (born Spencer) and the Reverend David Ashby, a Wesleyan minister. Ferguson later became a lay officer of the Methodist church. She received her education at Bradford Girls Grammar School and then at St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford, where she read English from 1919 to 1922, gaining a 3rd class BA and, a few years later, the Oxford MA.
She then moved to Manchester and took a job as a secretary, supplementing her income by writing a regular column for the British Weekly. She reviewed books for the publisher Hodder and Stoughton. Her writing career began in earnest when she submitted some detective stories for a weekly competition in the Manchester Evening News. Her first full-length novel, The Moorland Man, appeared in 1926 published by Hodder and Stoughton. She continued writing novels and stories under the name "R.C. Ashby" until the mid-1930s.
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