First wife of Poet T.S Eliot who was committed to an asylum (Northumberland House) in 1938, five years after his desertion of her. Probably suffering what what is now known as manic-depression or bipolar affective disorder. Read 'Painted Shadow - The life of Vivienne Eliot and the long-supressed truth about her influence on his genius' by Carole Seymour-Jones Pub. by Doubleday 2002.∼First wife of T S Eliot, incarcerated by her relatives in an asylum in North London where she remained until her death in 1947. An often overlooked influence on Eliot's earlier work and the remorse he felt on her abandonment and subsequent death underlies much of the poetry of "Four Quartets"
First wife of Poet T.S Eliot who was committed to an asylum (Northumberland House) in 1938, five years after his desertion of her. Probably suffering what what is now known as manic-depression or bipolar affective disorder. Read 'Painted Shadow - The life of Vivienne Eliot and the long-supressed truth about her influence on his genius' by Carole Seymour-Jones Pub. by Doubleday 2002.∼First wife of T S Eliot, incarcerated by her relatives in an asylum in North London where she remained until her death in 1947. An often overlooked influence on Eliot's earlier work and the remorse he felt on her abandonment and subsequent death underlies much of the poetry of "Four Quartets"
Family Members
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- Pinner Cemetery Eliot or Haigh-Wood
- Pinner Eliot or Haigh-Wood
- London Borough of Harrow Eliot or Haigh-Wood
- Greater London Eliot or Haigh-Wood
- England Eliot or Haigh-Wood
- Find a Grave Eliot or Haigh-Wood
