Ruth Lamb

Born Ruth Buck in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1829, she later married Joseph Lamb of Manchester and became known in print as Ruth Lamb. Reliable bibliographic and author records describe her as a British writer of juvenile fiction, and note that she died in Lancashire in 1916.

Lamb appears to have been remarkably productive. Surviving catalogs and reference listings credit her with dozens of works published from the 1860s onward, including How Charley Helped his Mother, Captain Christie's Granddaughter, A Wilful Ward, Holiday Stories, and Servants and Service. Many of these books were issued by strongly religious publishers such as the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Religious Tract Society.

Her writing is best remembered for its practical, moral tone. The books and summaries that remain suggest a fiction of family life, self-discipline, duty, kindness, and personal reform, often written for younger readers or for the household more generally. No clearly verified portrait of this specific author was available from the sources I found, so none is included here.