Valerie Eliot

Standard Name: Eliot, Valerie

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships T. S. Eliot
Ten years after the death of his first wife , TSE married the much younger Valerie Fletcher , who had been his secretary.
Gordon, Lyndall. T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. W. W. Norton, 1999.
496
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
319
Publishing T. S. Eliot
In 1971 the poet's widow, Valerie Eliot , edited a facsimile and transcript of the original Waste Land drafts, which revealed among other things how much influence Pound had exercised over the poem in its...
Publishing T. S. Eliot
TSE once wrote to his mother: I don't like reading other people's private correspondence in print, and I do not want other people to read mine.
qtd. in
Collini, Stefan. “Buffed-Up Scholar”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 13-16.
Nevertheless an edition of his letters is under way...

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Texts

Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land Drafts. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1971.