RP
had a lifelong companion in Kathleen, or K, O'Hara
, with whom she both worked and, from soon after the start of their business partnership, lived. It does not appear that this was an...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Pitter
Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her...
Occupation
Ruth Pitter
RP
and Kathleen O'Hara
pooled their savings of nearly £600 and set up their own small firm, Deane and Forester
, as a craft workshop in Chelsea where they both made and sold their work.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
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Residence
Ruth Pitter
RP
and Kathleen O'Hara
moved from London to settle at Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire, not in a cottage of stone or timbered charm but in a plain, solid, early twentieth-century brick house.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
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Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Residence
Ruth Pitter
Early in the second world war RP
and Kathleen O'Hara
moved from Chelsea across the Thames into an industrial area, so that Ruth could comply with wartime regulations about directed labour, and find a factory...