Ruth Clark

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::summary British writer (1899–1964) ::

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Field	Value
name	Ruth Clark
image	File:Ruth Clark 1923 portrait.png
alt	Clark in Kibbo Kift attire, 1923
caption	Clark in Kibbo Kift attire, 1923
pseudonym	Minobi
birth_date
birth_place	Sunderland
death_date
death_place	Scarborough
nationality	British
genre
subject	Woodcraft
movement	Kibbo Kift
notable_works	Camp Fire Training for Girls
spouse	John Hargrave
partner
children	Ivan Gordon Hargrave
website
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Ruth Clark (Woodcraft name: Minobi, meaning Glad Heart) (29 November 1899 – 2 October 1964) was the author of the first woodcraft book for girls and an active original member of the Kibbo Kift.

Clark authored and illustrated Camp Fire Training for Girls, the first woodcraft book for girls. Published in 1919, it had a foreword by Lady Baden-Powell.

Clark was a member of the Camp Fire Girls movement as a girl. She was the leader of The Merrie Campers group of woodcraft girls. She was a co-founder of the Kibbo Kift and incorporated her girls into it, but was not involved in the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit.

Clark was born in Sunderland. She married John Hargrave on 28 November 1919. They had one son, Ivan Gordon Hargrave (1920–1992). Clark and Hargrave "parted company" in the early 1930s and were divorced in the 1950s. She died in Scarborough in 1964.

References

References

1. Matthew De Abaitua. (7 July 2011). "The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars". Penguin Books Limited.
2. "'Camp Fire Training for Girls', by Ruth Clark".
3. (2015). "Designing Utopia: John Hargrave and the Kibbo Kift". Museum of London.
4. "Who were the Kibbo Kift?".
5. (2003). "The World of Elsie Jeanette Oxenham and Her Books". Girls Gone By Publishers.
6. (March 2007). "Books to Read". Hesperides.
7. (20 March 2012). "The eccentric UK cult of the Kibbo Kift Kindred & the Greenshirts of the 1930s".
8. [http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/727132.html The book "OM KA" written by John Hargrave on his marriage (Museum of London)]
9. Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died, Volume 8 A. & C. Black, 1981
10. "Descendants of James Clark".

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