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Marguerite (Margot) Ruddock (1907–1951), who used the stage name Margot Collis, was an English actress, poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).
Dec 7, 2011 · Ah, sweet dancer: W. B. Yeats, Margot Ruddock: a correspondence : Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
As fate would have it, within six months of the Steinach operation Yeats received a letter from a twenty‐seven‐year‐old actress and poet, Margot Ruddock, seeking his help with her poetry and in developing a poets' theater in London. Ruddock had lived her young life intensely.
In October and November 1934 Yeats and Margot Ruddock worked on plans for her to read and sing Yeats’s poems from the stage at the Mercury Theatre. Those readings never took place, but she read and chanted his poems in his last three BBC broadcasts, in 1937.
- William H. O’Donnell
- 1988
Marguerite (Margot) Ruddock (1907–1951), who used the stage name Margot Collis, was an English actress, poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).
During this time, Yeats was involved in a number of romantic affairs with, among others, the poet and actress Margot Ruddock, and the novelist, journalist and sexual radical Ethel Mannin. As in his earlier life, Yeats found erotic adventure conducive to his creative energy, and, despite age and ill-health, he remained a prolific writer.
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Feb 22, 2013 · There was lovely, young and unhappily married Margot Ruddock. The Marxist Ethel Mannin, the journalist Edith Shackleton Heald. His mind was an aphrodisiac for intelligent women.
