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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).
The unpublished ‘Margot’ suggests that Margot Ruddock was initially a Siren, but when Yeats viewed her through the lens of dance as a symbol of creativity in ‘A Crazed Girl,’ she became a Muse.
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.
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.
Introduction (1936) to Margot Ruddock, The Lemon Tree (1937) Chapter. pp 186–190. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. William H. O’Donnell. Part of the book series: The Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats ( (CWWBY)) 14 Accesses. Abstract.
- William H. O’Donnell
- 1988
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.
So Yeats informed Margot Ruddock on October 11, 1934, from Rome, where he had begun to redraft The King of the Great Clock Tower to give her a role to act.
