Margot Ruddock

Marguerite (Margot) Ruddock (1907-1951), who used the stage name Margot Collis, was an actress, poet and singer. She had a relationship with W. B. Yeats starting in 1934. Their correspondence was published as Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).

Yeats edited her poems for publication, but it is not clear how much change he made to them. He included some of them in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which he edited.

Some of her poems have been set as songs by the composer Robert Erickson (1917-1997).

She was married twice: first to John Collis, with whom she had a son, Michael, and secondly to Raymond Lovell, with whom she had a daughter, Simone. She died in 1951, when she was just 44.

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Name	Ruddock, Margot
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Date of birth	1907
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Date of death	1951
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