Vivien Eliot

Within less than a year of his arrival TSE was deeply involved with Vivienne or Vivien Haigh-Wood , who seemed to represent much that he was seeking: a cultured, sophisticated, un-American background, a personal intensity...

Vivien Eliot continued to be afflicted with mental instability and severe physical problems. In 1923 she nearly died of colitis; in spring 1925 a combination of rheumatism with liver and intestinal troubles threw her into...

TSE left England fully determined that this would be the end of his marriage in fact, although his religious beliefs did not permit a divorce. From the USA in February 1933 he instructed his solicitor...

TSE and Vivienne Haigh-Wood married at Hampstead Registry Office .

Vivien Eliot died suddenly, at Northumberland House , a private London mental hospital, of syncope and cardio-vascular degeneration.

Ten years after the death of his first wife , TSE married the much younger Valerie Fletcher , who had been his secretary.

After her return from Paris, HM was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien and T. S. Eliot , Lytton Strachey , Molly and Desmond MacCarthy , Duncan Grant ,...

LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...

EB loved Oxford (where she and her husband spent ten years) and became a social success there. She met and became friends with John and Susan Buchan , and it was through them that she...

The first number of The Criterion appeared in October 1922, edited by TSE : its title (invented by Vivien Eliot ) declared its intention of assuming the authority of literary judgement. This first issue included...