Anne Ridler

Anne Ridler

Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poetess, 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 earned official recognition, receiving an OBE in 2001.

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    And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
    It compels humility: what we began
    Is now its own.
    —Anne Ridler (b. 1912)