Ruby M. Ayres

28 January 1881 – 14 November 1955

Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriege formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As widow without childrens, she moved to her sister's home at Weybridge, Surrey. She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her f

• Little and good
• All over again
• The black sheep
• The man from Ceylon
• Little and good
• By the world forgot
• Dark Gentleman
• Day Comes Round
• Life Steps in
• Little Man
• Love changes
• Love without wings