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in 1911 and he fell in love with her. Over the next five years he wrote her almost 400 love letters even though he was married and had no intention of leaving his family. Royde-Smith was ambivalent about the relationship, though she enjoyed being de la Mare's muse, and she inspired some of his most
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s literary editor, the first woman to attain this position. As editor, she championed the work of such writers as Rupert Brooke (whose early poems she published), Graham Greene (whose career she helped to launch), Elizabeth Bowen and Rose
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