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Ruth France

Died in 1968

Helena Ruth Henderson was born on 12 June 1913 in Leithfield, in north Canterbury, into a Catholic family. Married in 1934 to the boatbuilder Arnold France, against the will of her father, a fervent Catholic, she lived with him for more than three years on a sailing boat in Lyttelton harbour, then in Sumner. She published her verse under a man's name, Paul Henderson, and died in Christchurch on 19 August 1968, while working on a third novel.

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