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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.
It is a sad and desolate place. 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.
Vivien Haigh-Wood met Eliot, her junior by four months, in March 1915, when he was a postgraduate at Oxford studying philosophy. They were swiftly married on 26 June 1915.
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 12, 2012 · T.S. Eliot's first wife Vivien Haigh-Wood suffered from a severe hormonal illness that required constant medical treatment, exacerbating an already hysterical nature.
Oct 26, 2001 · On her death in January 1947, Vivienne Eliot left her papers to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in order to preserve the record of her tempestuous 17-year marriage to the poet T. S. Eliot. She wrote in her diary that she longed for people to know the "true history" of her relationship with her husband.
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Jan 2, 2020 · Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915. The union was not a happy one and she died in an asylum in 1947. His second wife, Valerie Eliot, died in 2012, having guarded her husband's...
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