Berta Ruck

Berta Ruck ( born August 2, 1878 in Murree, Punjab Province, British India as Amy Roberta jerk, since 1918 official real name Amy Roberta Ruck Oliver, † August 11 1978 in Aberdyfi, Wales ) was a British writer. Its more than 100 novels mainly belong to the genre of romance. In particular, in the period between the two world wars it was one of the most successful writers of English fiction.

Life

Berta Ruck was born of Welsh parents child in what was then British India, where her father was an officer in the British colonial army. Your Aunt Amy jerk ( † 1876 in childbirth ) was married to the botanist Francis Darwin, the journalist and writer Bernard Darwin was Berta jerk cousin. At the age of two years, she came to the UK, where she grew sequentially in different locations in Wales and England. For a stay as an au pair in the summer of 1892 in Halberstadt, where they anfertigte drawings of their travel impressions, she discovered her artistic talent. After leaving school, she studied art at the Lambeth School of Art in London, from 1901, at the Slade School of Fine Art A scholarship allowed it to 1904 a year in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. During her studies, Berta Ruck joined as an illustrator of magazines to the public. On encouragement of her friend Edith Nesbit, who chose the name Roberta by Berta Ruck for a main character of her children's book The Railway Children (1905 ), she began in 1905 also short stories and serials for women's magazines to write about. In 1909 she married the writer Oliver Onions, with whom she 's two sons Arthur (* 1912) and William (* 1913) had. With her ​​family, she initially lived in Henley-on -Thames, afterwards ( until 1939 ) in Hampstead in the former County of London. 1918 the family took the official surname Oliver on, but appeared jerk books afterwards always under the name Berta Ruck.

At the urging of her husband Berta Ruck gave her in 1912 appeared as a continuation of story telling His Official Fiancée in 1914 in book form out. This novel was a great success both in the UK and in the U.S., reached several subsequent editions and has been filmed twice. Subsequently published jerk over more than five decades every year one to three more novels that appeared in part at the same time in the UK and U.S. publishers. In the 20s and 30s also the publisher Bernhard Tauchnitz issued a series of works Berta jerk ( in the original English ) in Leipzig. In 1920, she was already so well known that a Berta Ruck Birthday Book was published with excerpts from some of her published books until then. Selected novels jerk were translated into Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech and Italian, in German translation only the Awful Arabella appeared ( German title Arabella behaves, 1930). A first autobiographical work, she published in 1935 under the title The Story -Teller Tells the Truth.

After moving with her husband in the Welsh resort of Aberdyfi in 1939 Berta Ruck also worked as a radio journalist from the design of Wales regional radio programs of the BBC until the early 1960s. When choosing their subjects jerk as time went on: While her early, published at the beginning of World War I works still play in society Edwardian era, her last novel Shopping for a Husband applies from 1967 to the British public of the 60s years popular matchmaking agency. 1970 beaming the BBC from the television documentary Yesterday's Witness, reported in the Berta Ruck about her youth in the 1890s. In their last phase of life jerk wrote four books with autobiographical reminiscences, including her autobiography, A Trickle of Welsh Blood ( 1967). With the history of their ancestors ( Ancestral Voices) gave 1972 her last book. A few days after the completion of her 100th birthday Berta Ruck died at her home in Aberdyfi.

Works

Novels (selection)

  • His Official Fiancée. Hutchinson, London 1914
  • In Another Girl's Shoes. Hutchinson, London 1916
  • Arabella the Awful. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919 ( German translation: Arabella behaves Göckner, Berlin / Vienna 1930. )
  • The Berta Ruck Birthday Book. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1920
  • Sir or Madam. Hutchinson, London 1923; also: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1923
  • The Unkissed Bride. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York 1929; also: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1929
  • A Star in love. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935
  • He Learnt About Women. Mills & Boon, London 1940
  • Tomboy in Lace. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York 1947
  • We Have All Your Secrets. Hutchinson, London 1955
  • Runaway Lovers. Hurst & Blackett, London 1963
  • Shopping for a Husband. Hurst & Blackett, London 1967

Autobiographical Books

  • A Story -Teller Tells the Truth. Reminiscences and Notes. Hutchinson, London 1935
  • A Smile for the Past. Hutchinson, London 1959
  • A Trickle of Welsh Blood. An Autobiography. Hutchinson, London 1967
  • An asset to Wales. Hutchinson, London, 1970, ISBN 0-09-101960-5
  • Ancestral Voices. Hutchinson, London, 1972, ISBN 0-09-110960-4

Films

  • In Another Girl's Shoes. Great Britain in 1917, directed by Alexander Butler
  • His Official Fiancée. USA 1919 Directed by Robert G. Vignola
  • Hans officiella fästmö. Sweden 1944, Director: Nils Jerring ( based on the novel His Official Fiancée )
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