Background
Born in Petersham, Sydney, to Alfred Percival Bedford and Agnes Victoria Stephen, daughter of Sir Alfred Stephen, an influential chief justice, whose family she wrote about in her humorous book A Family Chronicle (1954).
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Ruth Bedford
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Bedford proved a talented verse writer from an early age: her first book, Rhymes by Ruth was published when she was eleven years old in 1893 (revised and reprinted 1896). Bedford wrote a number of poems for various Australian newspapers, especially The Sydney Morning Herald", where her poetry appeared over a 30-year period. "The Brisbane Courier" described her as a poet who "writes attractive verse, reflective and sensitive to a degree."
As honorary secretary she traveled to Buenos Aires as the club"s representative in 1936.
Ruth Bedford never married and died in Paddington, New South Wales in 1963.
