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Winifred M. Letts was a novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in England in 1882, she moved to Ireland as a young woman. Her collections include More Songs from Leinster (John Murray, 1926), The Spires of Oxford and Other Poems (E. P. Dutton and Company, 1918), Hallow-e’en and Poems of the War (John Murray, 1916), and Songs from Leinster (John Murray, 1913). Letts, who served as a masseuse in army camps during World War I, famously wrote about her experiences during the war, as well as the joys of rural life in Ireland. She died in 1972.
Born in 1890 in England, Isaac Rosenberg served in the military during World War I and became...
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Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire, England, in 1892. An early member of the Imagist...
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Christopher Morley was born in Pennsylvania in 1890. He was the author of Songs for a...