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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’.
Sep 22, 2002 · 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 and...
Aug 9, 2016 · Subjectivity in the Diaries of Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. By Harriet Staff. At London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers gives an account of working at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot was once an editor. Wilmers recalls hearing stories of Eliot's wife, Vivien:
Dec 5, 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...
Vivien Haigh-Wood (1888-1947), who married Eliot in 1915, has long fascinated readers. She supported Eliot’s talent, enthusing over The Waste Land even when it seemed to communicate the nervy...
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot 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(ne) Eliot, née Haigh-Wood (1888–1947): T. S. Eliot’s first wife. Born in Bury, Lancashire, on 28 May 1888, ‘Vivy’ was brought up from the age of three in Hampstead.
Feb 19, 2015 · Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood in 1915, at the end of his year as a research student at Oxford, is dealt with by Crawford compassionately and unsensationally as a union between two...
Sep 12, 2011 · In the spring of 1915, at a party hosted by Scofield Thayer, a wealthy Harvard classmate who was also studying at Oxford, Eliot met Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a friend of Thayer’s sister.
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