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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’.
Vivienne Haigh-Wood (1889-1947) es una de esas mujeres mal llamadas “loca”, a la que muchos biógrafos de T.S. Elliot catalogan como artista mediocre, esposa adúltera, mujer frágil, infectada por mil y una debilidades físicas que desembocaron en la locura, y que le hizo la vida imposible y dolorosa al poeta.
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 de mayo de 1888 - 22 de enero de 1947) fue una institutriz y escritora inglesa, conocida por su matrimonio en 1915 con el poeta estadounidense TS Eliot . Su legado, y la medida en que ella influyó en el trabajo de Eliot, ha sido objeto de mucho debate.
22 de sept. de 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...
9 de ago. de 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: [Vivien] was no longer alive in my day – she died in a mental hospital in 1947.
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.