Ruth Padel

RP is a contemporary writer who came late to publishing poetry, after a career as a classical scholar who wrote on Greek literature and feminist theory. She is also a career journalist and reviewer, and has published successful poetry anthologies of popularizing or educative intent, as well as introductions to works by others and an unusual travel memoir.
Slightly blurry, half-length photograph of Ruth Padel in Crete, smiling with her arms crossed, wearing a dark jacket. a bright blue scarf, and gold earrings. Her hair is shoulder-length, curly, and rather wild. In front is a colourful length of woven fabric.

Milestones

8 May 1946
Ruth Sofia Padel was born in the attic of a house in Wimpole Street, London, belonging to her great-aunt. She was the eldest of five children.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Crown, Sarah. “A life in poetry: Ruth Padel”. The Guardian.
23 June 2005
RP 's Tigers in Red Weather appeared: a blend of travel and adventure writing, conservation polemic, and introspective autobiography.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk, http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
France, Linda. “One of a Kind”. Mslexia, No. 26, p. 53.
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16 May 2009
RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.
Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian.
Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph.

Biography

Birth and Family

8 May 1946
Ruth Sofia Padel was born in the attic of a house in Wimpole Street, London, belonging to her great-aunt. She was the eldest of five children.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Crown, Sarah. “A life in poetry: Ruth Padel”. The Guardian.

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