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Ruth Augusta Adam, née King (14 December 1907 – 3 February 1977), was an English journalist and writer of novels, comics and non-fiction feminist literature.
Ruth Adam wrote twelve novels between 1937 and 1961, all of them concerned with social issues; she also co-authored, with Kitty Muggeridge, a biography of Beatrice Webb. A Woman’s Place , a history of women’s lives in the twentieth century, appeared in 1975.
Ruth Adam wrote twelve novels between 1937 and 1961, all of them con. Ruth Augusta King was the daughter of a vicar in a Nottinghamshire mining village. After school in Yorkshire, she taught for five years, before marrying the journalist Kenneth Adam and moving with him first to Manchester and then to London.
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- February 3, 1977
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Based on the actual experiences of Ruth Adam, her husband, and their friends, A House in the Country is a witty and touching novel about the perils of dreams come true.
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Ruth Adam. 16 books9 followers. Ruth Augusta King was the daughter of a vicar in a Nottinghamshire mining village. After school in Yorkshire, she taught for five years, before marrying the journalist Kenneth Adam and moving with him first to Manchester and then to London.
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Provides an overview of 20th century women's lives, covering what the reader want to know about the suffragettes, early 'type-writers', contraception, and work...
Aug 3, 2020 · Ruth Adam writes with good nature and wit in this charming memoir of the years after WW2 when her young family and a few friends clubbed together to try to live out their country idyll a world that had already long since passed.
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