Ruth France

Helena Ruth France (née Henderson; 12 June 1913 – 19 August 1968) was a New Zealand librarian, poet and novelist.

Early life and education

France was born in Leithfield, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1913, the daughter of Francis and Helena Henderson. Her mother Helena was a writer of unpublished novels and plays as well as published poems and stories in the local Christchurch newspaper.[1] She attended Christchurch Girls' High School.[1]

Career

France worked at the Canterbury Public Library before her marriage to boatbuilder Arnold France in 1934.[2] The Henderson family were Catholic; France's father objected to her marriage to a non-Catholic and feigned suicide the night before the wedding. She then rejected Catholicism.[1][2]

She lived on a yacht in Lyttleton Harbour for four years, rowing Arnold to work.[1] They had two sons and the family moved to Sumner. She was friends with Elsie Locke, but considered Christchurch authors and poets prejudiced against women.[2]

Her two published novels are The Race (1958) and Ice Cold River (1961). The Race is based on the ill-fated Lyttleton to Wellington yacht race in 1951 in which her husband participated.[3] She received a £100 award from the New Zealand Literary Fund for The Race.[4] Ice Cold River is a family story set on a Canterbury farm which is cut off by floods.[2] She published poems under her own name in various publications including Landfall, and two books of poems Unwilling Pilgrim (1955) and The Halting Place (1961) under the name of Paul Henderson.[2] Her poems were included in a publication Best Poems in 1958 and the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse.[3]

She died in Christchurch in 1968, leaving a third adult novel The Tunnel unfinished.[2]

A collection of her poems No Traveller Returns: the selected poems of Ruth France was published in 2020.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Macdonald, Charlotte; Penfold, Merimeri; Williams, Bridget, eds. (1991). "Ruth France". The Book of New Zealand women : Ko kui ma te kaupapa. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams Books. pp. 214–217. ISBN 0-908912-04-8. OCLC 28180678.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Beaglehole, Helen. "Helena Ruth France". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Mrs Ruth France was well-known novelist". Press. 21 August 1968. p. 10. Retrieved 6 March 2022 – via PapersPast.
  4. ^ "Literary award". Press. 26 September 1959. p. 2. Retrieved 6 March 2022 – via PapersPast.
  5. ^ France, Ruth; McLean, Robert (2020). No traveller returns: the selected poems of Ruth France. ISBN 978-0-473-51415-0. OCLC 1156723210.
  6. ^ Pirie, Mark (Spring 2021). "Comment on B.E. Baughan and Ruth France". Poetry Notes Quarterly Newsletter. 11 (2): 1–3 – via ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz.

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