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While her husband, the son of the then Prime Minister, was away on active service in the First World War, Cynthia Asquith supported herself by becoming private secretary to the author J.M.Barrie and by freelance writing. She later published some royal biographies, two novels - ‘The Spring House’ (1936) and ‘One Sparkling Wave’ (1943) - anthologies of ghost stories, children’s books, a book of short stories and 3 volumes of reminiscences. She and her husband owned ‘Marylands’, a house in Marine Drive, Kingsgate, which they used for holidays, and it was here that she first met D.H.Lawrence on 20th July 1913. She admired and encouraged him for the rest of his life.
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