The Witches is actually a book the author of which is Ruth Manning-Sanders. She was born in Swansea, Wales in 1888 and she died on October 12, 1988, in PenZance, England. The most work of her is the collection of the fairy tales from all over the world. All these she did because she had a craze for producing or reproducing stories related to child psychology, which is termed as children stories.
The Witches Author Ruth Manning-Sanders in her childhood used to live in Cheshire, England. Her father was an English Unitarian minister and she was his youngest daughter. Since the childhood the interest of reading books was there in her. She along with her other sister enacted in a play which was written and directed by the sisters. The description of her childhood in her own words is like this, extraordinarily happy ... with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.
The Witches Author Ruth Manning-Sanders tells her autobiography in the foreword to Scottish Folk Tales. She used to spend her holidays in a farmhouse with her sisters. They at times would enjoy swimming or horse riding. And after that there would be a nice candlelight barn when somebody would march up and down and play the bagpipes for them.
The Witches Author Ruth Manning-Sanders was basically a poet and an author. According to some critics her writing ability is best expressed in the figure drawn by her of the dust jacket in A book of Giants, Mrs. Manning-Sanders tells the stories with wit and good humor. There is not a word wasted.
The Witches Author Ruth Manning-Sanders has published her books under a number of publications which includes both American and international. American publishers are E. P. Dutton, Heinemann, McBride, Laurie etc, and some more are Oxford University Press, Thomas Nelson and so on. There are so many personalities who have worked with her in while the writing of the children stories. A few of them include Victor Ambrus, Donald Chaffin, Brian Froud, C. Walter Hodges, J. Hodgson, Annette Macarthur-Onslow, Constance Marshall, William Papas and others.
The Witches Author Ruth Manning-Sanders had spent a little time with a circus in her lifetime and it had inspired her to a great extent. It was Rosaires Circus. She writes about a circus performer in her novel The Golden Ball: A Novel of the Circus (1954). Her career as novelist flourished in the pre World War II times.
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