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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’.
30 de oct. de 2022 · Not long after that, he met and quickly married his vivacious first wife, Vivien Haigh-Wood, who suffered from mental and physical health issues for most of her life. During the breakdown of...
26 de sept. de 1988 · El hermano de Vivien, Maurice, fue enviado por los Haigh-Wood a recoger a los Eliot en la estación de ferrocarril: recordó cuán felices parecían, aunque había un aire de jovialidad forzada...
9 de ago. de 2016 · Mary-Kay Wilmers reviews Vivien Eliot's diaries, which reveal her sense of sin and prophecy. She also recounts her encounters with Vivien at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot worked as an editor.
5 de dic. de 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...
La poco caritativa descripción que hizo Virginia Woolf de la primera mujer de T.S. Eliot, Vivienne Eliot, née Vivienne Haigh-Wood, podría traducirse con algo de libertad como «un saco de gatos rabiosos colgado del cuello de Tom».
