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Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (also Vivien, born Vivienne Haigh; 28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was the first wife of American-British poet T. S. Eliot, whom she married in 1915, less than three months after their introduction by mutual friends, when Vivienne was a governess in Cambridge and Eliot was studying at Oxford.
Vivien was the daughter of Rose Robinson and Charles Haigh-Wood, a popular Victorian artist. She first appeared by name in Eliot’s letters as one of two English girls, ‘emancipated Londoners’, who are ‘charmingly sophisticated (even “disillusioned”) without being hardened’.
Eliot was twenty-six and, almost certainly, a frustrated virgin when, in 1915, he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, an Englishwoman he had known for three months. Haigh-Wood was a medically...
5 de dez. de 2020 · On January 22, 1947, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot died, of heart failure, at Northumberland House, the mental hospital where she had been confined for almost a decade. She was fifty-eight...
9 de ago. de 2016 · Mary-Kay Wilmers reviews Vivien Eliot's diaries, which reveal her sense of sin and prophecy. She also recounts her encounters with Vivien at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot worked as an editor.
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (also Vivien, born Vivienne Haigh; 28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was the first wife of American-British poet T. S. Eliot, whom she married in 1915, less than three months after their introduction by mutual friends, when Vivienne was a governess in Cambridge and Eliot was studying at Oxford.
2 de jan. de 2020 · Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915. The union was not a happy one and she died in an asylum in 1947. His second wife, Valerie Eliot, died in 2012, having guarded her husband's...
