article_snippet.sent: Rupert Brooke's (pictured) poem
article_snippet.sent: Before then, Rupert Brooke's (pictured) was known only in literary circles.
article_snippet.sent: Now Lorna C. Beckett, chair of the Rupert Brooke Society, has turned Lorna C. Beckett, chair of the Rupert Brooke Society into a chronological narrative, adding the background information Lorna C. Beckett, chair of the Rupert Brooke Society need, plus Rupert Brooke's (pictured) own comments.
article_snippet.sent: At times, admittedly, her own comments do smack of chick- lit clichés (including Brooke’s unwillingness ‘
article_snippet.sent: Rupert Brooke's (pictured) first saw Rupert Brooke's (pictured) on the London to Cambridge train in November 1911.
article_snippet.sent: Like everyone else who ever set eyes on Rupert Brooke's (pictured), it seems, Rupert Brooke's (pictured) was overwhelmed by Rupert Brooke's (pictured) beauty and spent the journey sketching Rupert Brooke's (pictured) with Rupert Brooke's (pictured) handy chalks.
article_snippet.sent: S S then carried the sketch around Cambridge, showing the sketch to anyone who might be able to identify S. Luckily, the two moved in similar circles, with Rupert Brooke's (pictured) studying at King’s College and Phyllis’s father an archaeology professor.
article_snippet.sent: Eventually, having tracked Rupert Brooke's (pictured) down, Rupert Brooke's (pictured) got Rupert Brooke's (pictured) parents to invite Rupert Brooke's (pictured) to lunch where, according to Rupert Brooke's (pictured) memoir, the effect of Rupert Brooke's (pictured) arrival was ‘as though the sun had suddenly risen’.
article_snippet.sent: Not all Rupert Brooke's (pictured) chat-up lines would work today, though:
article_snippet.sent: ‘Your palms sweat,’ Rupert Brooke's (pictured) once told Rupert Brooke's (pictured).
article_snippet.sent: Nonetheless, Phyllis was smitten, not least after, while on a walk together, the two took off their clothes to wade through a river and Phyllis dried Rupert Brooke's (pictured) afterwards with Phyllis hair.
article_snippet.sent: The trouble was that Rupert Brooke's (pictured) appeared to have accepted such adoration as essentially his due — and not just from Phyllis.
article_snippet.sent: Though badly hurt, Phyllis naturally sought to excuse Rupert Brooke's (pictured)’s behaviour, somehow managing to see Phyllis as a ‘poor, lost angel’ led astray by Phyllis racy friends.
article_snippet.sent: By comparison, Rupert Brooke's (pictured) self-justifications seem both faintly irritated and distinctly patronising, especially given that Phyllis addresses a woman less than three years Phyllis junior as ‘child’.
article_snippet.sent: In May 1913, Rupert Brooke's (pictured) headed off to the South Seas, where the women, happily, proved more compliant.
article_snippet.sent: B y retrieving Rupert Brooke's (pictured) flawed
article_snippet.sent: After being lost to history for so long, Phyllis emerges as a hugely likeable and spirited woman who, for all Phyllis wilfully over-generous misreading of Rupert Brooke's