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Valerie Eliot met her future husband in 1949, two years after Eliot’s long-estranged first wife died in a sanatorium. She had come to work as a secretary at his publishing house, Faber and Faber ...
Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 1926 – 9 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize -winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings.
Aug 17, 2016 · But his marriage late in life to the much-younger Valerie Fletcher was the complete opposite: calm and sustaining to the aging poet. Valerie Eliot met her future husband in 1949, two years after Eliot’s long-estranged first wife died in a sanatorium. She had come to work as a secretary at his publishing house, Faber and Faber, but her ...
Aug 11, 2022 · Just a few years earlier, Elisabeth Elliot was still touring the country, captivating audiences with the account of her first husband’s death at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in 1956. But by 2004, dementia had ravaged her mind, leaving Valerie to take up the mantle of the Elliot legacy. She’d spent her whole life preparing.
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Nov 16, 2012 · Members of our group were mostly critical of Mrs. Eliot’s tight control over her husband’s works, but in the event they all became fans of hers. At the reception we met an elderly but sprightly woman—slender, well-dressed, and gracious. She chatted easily and cheerfully with us, and we all liked her immediately.
Jan 8, 2015 · Eliot’s savior came in an unlikely form: the handsome and practical Valerie Fletcher. After the couple married, in 1957, when he was 68 and she was 30, the reclusive intellectual underwent a ...
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Sep 22, 2002 · Seymour-Jones has a theory. She believes that Eliot was gay, and that he led a "secret life." He married Vivienne (according to this theory) in a desperate attempt to "normalize" himself, and he ...
