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Ruby M. Ayres

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Ruby M. Ayres


Born
in Watford, London, England, The United Kingdom
January 28, 1881

Died
November 14, 1955

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Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister's home at Weybridge, Surrey.

She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stought
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Average rating: 3.35 · 157 ratings · 36 reviews · 181 distinct works
A Bachelor Husband

3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1920 — 43 editions
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The Phantom Lover

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1919 — 24 editions
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The Second Honeymoon

3.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1918 — 43 editions
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Life Steps In

2.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1929 — 8 editions
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The Black Sheep

4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1917 — 8 editions
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The Beggar Man

2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1920 — 34 editions
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Ribbons and Laces

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1920 — 3 editions
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The Man from Ceylon

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions
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The Tree Drops a Leaf

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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Where Are You Going?

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions
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“Fortunately the train was not very full, and the corridor immediately outside their carriage was deserted, or somebody might have had a very interesting demonstration of how to kiss a woman who had refused for months to be kissed.”
Ruby M. Ayres, The Phantom Lover

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