Arguably, one of them was Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot, the poet’s first wife, whom he abandoned and later had committed to a mental hospital. Vivien was an emotionally frail woman Eliot married in ...

Painted Shadow The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, Their Marriage, and the Long-Suppressed Truth about Her Influence on his Genius As spring arrived, the presence of the ...

Until 1949, when Eliot met Valerie Fletcher, the secretary to whom he would be happily married from 1957 until his death in 1965, love went badly for the Nobel poet. He regarded his miserable 18-year ...

In the mid-1950s, T.S. Eliot seemed close to death. The American poet was tortured by the memory of his disastrous first marriage, to Vivienne Haigh-Wood, who died in an asylum in 1947 after ...

Hastings’ play examines Eliot’s doomed relationship with his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. They met when he was a student at Oxford in 1915, but the whirlwind romance and hasty marriage were ...

Until 1949, when Eliot met Valerie Fletcher, the secretary to whom he would be happily married from 1957 until his death in 1965, love went badly for the Nobel poet. He regarded his miserable 18-year ...