Ruth Lowinsky
Ruth J. Emilie Lowinsky (née Hirsch; 1893–1958) was an English society hostess and food writer. Her husband, the surrealist Thomas Esmond Lowinsky, provided illustrations for her first book, "Lovely Food" (1931), published by the Nonesuch Press on hand-made paper. Life. Lowinsky was the daughter of Leopold Hirsch (1867–1932), a London banker and art collector. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art before giving up painting on her marriage, and setting up home in Kensington Square. A friend of Rebecca West and Raymond Mortimer, she died in January 1958.