Ridler was the daughter of hockey club Bradby, a housemaster at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where she was born. Her mother, Violet Bradby, born Milford, wrote popular children"s stories and was the sister of Humphrey S. Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford.
King"s College London. Downe House School.
Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994. She turned to libretto work and verse plays. lieutenant was later in life that she earned official recognition, receiving an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2001.
One of her great-grandfathers was Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, a brother of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Her cousins included the composer Robin Milford and the Review Dick Milford, vicar of the University Church of Street Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
Anne Bradby was educated at Downe House School and later published a biography of her headmistress, Olive Willis. After six months in Florence and Rome, she took a diploma in journalism at King"s College London.
She edited Charles Williams: The Image of the City and other Essays (1958) and Charles Williams: Selected Writings (1961).
Also closely associated with T. South. Eliot, she wrote a short but powerful poem, "I Who am Here Dissembled", full of allusions to images in Eliot"s own poems, for the anthology T. South. Eliot: A Symposium in honour of his sixtieth birthday. Foreign a short time in the 1940s, Ridler was also a successful verse dramatist, writing such plays as Cain (1943) and Shadow Factory: A Nativity Play (1945).
