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He was born in Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers and his mother the photographer Eveleen Tennant . He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge . His trilogy/tetralogy ''The Root and the Flower'', set in India at the time of Akbar , is his major work. He was independently wealthy from his mid-20s, travelled and began to write. He married the American Elsie Palmer (1873-1955), a friend of , knew L. P. Hartley , Aelfrida Tillyard and Max Plowman , and corresponded with Olaf Stapledon . He did not visit India, and his writings about it have been seen by some critics as reflecting his own intellectual milieu and its concerns. In the 1930s he wrote in sympathy with Marxist thought, and became increasing pessimistic in his outlook. He committed suicide in 1944. The designer E. Q. Nicholson was his daughter. WORKS
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