article_snippet: I Saw You: The True Love Story of Brooke and Phyllis Gardner, draws on forgotten letters between the pair, as well as Gardner’s unpublished memoir.
article_snippet: his was just 27 and the book is being released by The British Library to mark the centenary of his passing.
article_snippet: Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner met when his was 25 and Brooke was 22 and Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
article_snippet: Gardner’s wrote in Brooke journal that neither spoke to the other but Brooke spent the time sketching Gardner’s and added:
article_snippet: It was under this strain that Brooke true feelings began to surface, with Brooke declaring:
article_snippet: Gardner’s mother finally decided to end the relationship and Brooke fled abroad.
article_snippet: Gardner’s died two years later.
article_snippet: Gardner’s finished Brooke memoir in 1918 but it was never published.
article_snippet: Brooke died from breast cancer in 1939 and, nine years later, the documents were given to the British Museum by Gardner’s sister, Delphis.
article_snippet: Brooke was not revealed to have been Gardner’s lover until 2000, when the letters and memoir were first unearthed by the British Library.