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LEAD: He was a dashing diplomat. She was one of the most successful female writers of her age. They met, fell in love and were never together for more than a week at a time. Biographer Victoria Glendinning looks at the lives and love of Charles Ritchie and Elizabeth Bowen in her new book “Love's Civil War”.

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