Anne Ridler
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Anne Barbara Ridler (nee Bradby) (July 30 1912- October 15 2001) was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994. She turned to libretto work and verse plays; it was later in life that she received some recognition, with an OBE in 2000.
She married the printer Vivian Ridler in 1938; they had four children. She was on the edge of the Inklings group, being a friend and correspondent of C. S. Lewis, editor of Charles Williams: The Image of the City and other Essays (1958) and Charles Williams: Selected Writings (1961), and a Christian.
External link
- Guardian Unlimited obituary (http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,6000,581905,00.html)
- Guardian article (http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,574760,00.html)