|
Ruth Stout (June 14, 1884 - August 22, 1980) was an American author best known for her "No-Work" gardening books and techniques. == Early and mid-life == Ruth Stout was born June 14, 1884,〔Connecticut Department of Health. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001. Hartford, CT, USA: Connecticut Department of Health.〕 in Girard, Kansas,〔"Woman's Club to Hear Talk by Miss Stout". ''The Bridgeport Post'', p.16, March 6, 1955.〕 to Quaker parents John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout. Her brother Rex Stout, also an author, was famous for the Nero Wolfe detective stories. Stout moved to New York when she was 18 and was employed at various times as baby nurse, bookkeeper, secretary, business manager, and factory worker. She was a lecturer and coordinated lectures and debates, and she owned a small tea shop in Greenwich Village and worked for a fake mind-reading act.〔''Bridgeport Sunday Post'', March 30, 1958, section B-four.〕〔Masters, A. (1955, August 31). "She Does Not Plow, Neither Does She Weed-But The Garden Grows". ''Waterbury Sunday Republican'', p.22.〕 In 1923, she accompanied fellow Quakers to Russia to assist in famine relief.〔 She met and married Alfred Rossiter in June,1929.〔〔Stout, Ruth ''How to have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back'' (1955, Eposition Press-New York) ,p.15.〕 Rossiter, the son of an American businessman, was born in Germany in 1882. His family relocated to New York City in 1894.〔''The Bridgeport Post'', November 26, 1960, p. 16.〕 In March 1930, the couple moved to Poverty Hollow, Redding Ridge, on the outskirts of Redding, Connecticut.〔 Ruth continued to use her maiden name as her pen name and Rossiter as her official name.〔Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration〕 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 Stout」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|