Then news came that he had married an English woman, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. Emily was startled but not devastated. After this, it was not until 1930 that the love affair took off.

During Eliot’s first marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, he was emotionally involved with Emily Hale, an old flame from Harvard University. Correspondence between Eliot and Hale went on for years ...

Vivienne Haigh-Wood’s passport photo, 1920. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons Vivienne identifies the episodes that gave rise to the poet’s images, centring herself in his creative life.

Steven Carroll’s new novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, sympathetically reimagines the life of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Eliot’s first wife, and reflects on his life and poetry. Its publication ...

Vivienne Haigh-Wood’s passport photo, 1920. Wikimedia commons. Vivienne identifies the episodes that gave rise to the poet’s images, centring herself in his creative life.

This year is the centenary of T.S. Eliot's revolutionary modernist poem, The Waste Land (1922). Steven Carroll's new novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, ...

”Tom and Viv,” Michael Hastings` play about T.S. Eliot and his first wife, turns out to be a disastrous debut for a new group called Pidgin English Productions. The play itself begins p… ...

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 ...

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 years old.