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    Walter de la Mare is one of England’s best known writers, producing great works that were often atmospheric, slightly scary and with a touch of mystery.   Born in south east London in 1873 into fairly privileged circumstances he was accorded, on his death in 1956, the honour of having his ashes buried in the crypt of St Pauls Cathedral.  He had, in fact, been a choirboy while attending the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir School and left school at age 16 to work for the Anglo-American (Standard) Oil Company in London as a clerk in the department of statistics.  Curiously, when he left this employment at only 35 years of age, he was awarded a Government pension and was able to retire to concentrate fully on his writing

    It was at the age of 22 that his writing career really began when he published a story in the Sketch newspaper called Kismet but he used the pseudonym Walter Ramal at this time.  He was probably given much encouragement by his mother, Lady Sophia, to follow a literar

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    Walter dem la Mare, born in April 1873, was a novelist, short story writer, and poet. He achieved renown as a writer relatively late in life, after working for 18 years in the statistics department of Standard Oil in London to support his family. During that time he still funnen time to write; however, it wasn’t until a friend secured him a Civil List pension in 1908 that de la Mare was able to focus on his writing full-time. In contrast to many of the other famous writers of his day, dem la Mare had a relatively unremarkable, traditional anställda life. He married his first and only wife, the actress Elfrida Ingpen, in 1899. They had four children and remained together until her death from Parkinson’s disease in 1943.

    Best known for his stories for children, as well as his short, psychologically-driven horror fiction, dem la Mare was also a prolific poet. His best-known and most widely anthologized work, "The Listen

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    Biography of Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956

    "Between Waking and Dreaming": Biographical Sketch by Anne White

    "You must have a silver penny to get into Fairyland." (Preface to Silver Pennies)

    "And when--after a hot breathless night during which she had lain between waking and dreaming while the lightning flared at her window, and the thunder raved over the sea--when, next morning, she came down very early to find that the hungry mice had stolen more than half of the handful of oatmeal she had left in the cupboard and that her little crock of milk had turned sour, her heart all but failed her. She sat down on the doorstep and she began to cry." ("A Penny a Day")

    I read this story at about the age of eight, and it was my first meeting with Walter de la Mare, along with the poem "Some One." It's a fairy tale about a poor but generous girl and a dwarf named Moleskins who offers to help her in exchange for a penny a day . . . but he may not be entirely trustworthy (is he the one steal

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