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Ruth Ainsworth (16 October 1908 – 16 May 1984) was a British writer, of over seventy children's books and numerous radio scripts. ==Life== Ainsworth was born in Manchester, in 1908, the second child (and first daughter) of Methodist minister Rev. Percy Clough Ainsworth and Gertrude Fisk of Pendleton, her older brother being mycologist Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ruth Ainsworth biography )〕 Ainsworth's father died on 1 July 1909 from typhoid aged 36. Soon after the family moved to 2 High Cliff Villas, Cobbold Road, Felixstowe. Ainsworth enrolled at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone where she studied between September 1924 and July 1926.〔 She later attended the Froebel Training Centre in Leicester. On 29 March 1935 she married chemist Frank Lathe Gilbert in Leicester. On 7 September 1936 she gave birth to twin sons: Christopher Gallard Gilbert (furniture historian and museum curator)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Christopher Gilbert )〕 and Oliver Lathe Gilbert (ecologist and lichenologist).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oliver Gilbert )〕 She had a third son Richard Frank Gilbert. The Gilberts initially settled in London, but their house was bombed in World War II. They relocated to Porthmadog. Latterly theGilberts lived in Corbridge, Northumberland.〔 Ainsworth died in 1984 aged 75. Her ashes were scattered in a stream in Wasdale.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Ainsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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