Ruby Constance Ashby

R. C. (Ruby Constance) Ashby (later Ruby Ferguson) was born in Yorkshire in 1899. She was educated at the Girls’ Grammar School, Bradford, and matriculated at St Hilda’s, Oxford in 1919, from which she graduated in 1922 with a degree in English Literature. Before she began her literary career, Ashby worked in a variety of jobs, including secretary, teacher, journalist, book reviewer, and publisher’s reader. Her first novel was published in 1926 and she went on to write a total …