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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.
September 22, 2002. T. S. Eliot's sex life. Do we really want to go there? It is a sad and desolate place. Eliot was twenty-six and, almost certainly, a frustrated virgin when, in 1915, he married...
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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...
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’.
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 years...
Apr 21, 2002 · There is no doubt that when Vivienne Haigh-Wood (she later spelled it Vivien) met Eliot at Oxford in 1915, she was quick, verbal, temperamental, full of life, restless, on the rebound from a...
In October 2019, librarians at Princeton University broke the metal bands around fourteen boxes that had for more than sixty years guarded the secret of T. S. Eliot’s relationship with Emily Hale, a friend of his cousin’s whom he first met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when they were teenagers.
