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Ruth Miller

Died in 1969

Ruth Miller was born in 1919 in Uitenhage, in the Cape Province, and grew up in the northern Transvaal; she was educated at Pietersburg, in a convent. Married, she settled in Johannesburg, where she was a school secretary, then a teacher of English. The death of her son David, at fourteen, recurs in her poems. She also wrote short stories, essays and radio plays. She lived in Johannesburg until her death, in 1969.

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