Ruth B. Fisher

Born Ruth Alice Hurditch in Marylebone in 1875, she is usually identified as Ruth B. Fisher. She became a Church Missionary Society worker in Uganda, where she was part of Anglican mission life and wrote from direct experience of the region and its communities.

Her books include On the Borders of Pigmy Land and Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda, works that helped introduce British readers to landscapes, customs, and stories from Uganda in the early 1900s. She wrote in an accessible, lively way that mixed travel writing, missionary observation, and retellings of local tradition.

Fisher died in 1959. Reliable sources agree on her importance as a missionary writer, though an easily confirmed portrait image does not seem to be available from the pages checked here.