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said "Emily Hale is painted as someone who fell apart, who had a nervous breakdown after loving Eliot for so many years and seeing him marry another woman", but "I didn't necessarily find that to be the case. I felt she got over this blow and kept living". After her retirement, Hale acted in a number of well-received community theater productions, and kept in contact with her friends and past students. She also taught for a period at Oak Grove School in
211:, and his preserved correspondence with Hale did not materially resume until 1930. From 1930 until 1956, Eliot wrote more than a thousand letters to Hale, visiting her in California over the New Year's holidays in 1932–33, before deciding to seek a formal separation from his wife when he returned to England in 1933. However, he told Hale he could not seek a divorce because of the strictures of his Anglican faith. 226:. (Eliot biographers had believed this visit occurred in 1934, but the Eliot-Hale correspondence revealed that the visit occurred in 1935.) In a memoir released by Princeton Library in mid-January 2020, Hale said that Eliot had told her that "Burnt Norton" was his love poem to her, an assertion backed up in the Eliot letters themselves. 278:. From 1942, she explored with Thorp the idea of keeping Eliot's letters in the Princeton University Library for safekeeping, finally deciding to do this in July 1956. Hale specified that the letters should be kept closed for fifty full years after the latter of her or Eliot's death. Hale died after Eliot, on October 12, 1969, in 282:, and accordingly, the archive was opened to scholars only in January 2020, revealing 1,131 letters from Eliot to Hale dating from the period 1930 to 1957. The letters included information about the evolving relationship between Hale and Eliot, and in some cases contradicted established published sources. 236:
Eliot's relationship with Hale was said by some biographers to provide Eliot with a model of a silent, ethereal woman and chaste love that could be indefinitely sustained. Hale's own feelings for Eliot are largely unknown, partly because Eliot arranged for nearly all of her letters to be burned after
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Initially, the letters could only be read in person at Princeton Library, and copies could not be made. Access to the letters became even more restricted following COVID-19-related shutdowns. On January 30, 2023, the Eliot estate made all the letters, and additional materials from the Eliot archive,
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intervened, and Hale and Eliot would not meet again until 1946, by which time Eliot was about to turn 58 and Hale, 55; however, after the death of Vivienne in 1947, Eliot arranged a meeting with Hale at which he told her he no longer could marry her. Eliot had told Hale that he would marry her if he
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In 1957, after Eliot remarried, Hale was forced to retire from Abbot Academy because she had reached the school's mandatory retirement age. While some Eliot biographers wrote that Hale was hospitalized following a nervous breakdown, no evidence is cited. One of Hale's biographers, Sara Fitzgerald,
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Eliot recalled first falling in love with Hale in 1912 when he was a graduate student studying philosophy at Harvard, and Eliot declared his love for her shortly before leaving for Europe in 1914; Eliot later said that Hale did not reciprocate his feelings, but he continued to write her and to send
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In a surprise to scholars, Eliot's estate simultaneously issued a written statement by him to be opened on the release of Hale's letters. Eliot's statement said that he "never had any sexual relations with Emily Hale", and it appeared to reject the notion that Hale was his muse: "Emily Hale would
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Hale included a cover note with the letters saying, "The memory of the years when we were most together and so happy are mine always", and also, "I accepted conditions as they were offered under the unnatural code which surrounded us, so that perhaps more sophisticated persons than I will not be
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Fitzgerald records that Hale wrote a final letter to Eliot in the early 1960s, in which she told him it was "'difficult' for her to consider her life to be important just because they had been connected," though the letter "ended on an upbeat note, hoping that they could still be friends." Eliot
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that the contents of the letters far exceeded Dickey and Gordon's expectations. "Eliot was very emotional and very explicit about how much he loved her and how important she was to his work". Gordon also added, "Eliot lays it all bare. That's striking, in part, because for a long time, it was
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However, some commentators immediately contrasted Eliot's statement with some of the early releases of his letters which state, "You have made me perfectly happy: that is, happier than I have ever been in my life", and they speculated that Eliot's harsh statement might have been written at the
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in the world for many years. The archive was opened to the public on January 2, 2020. Hale had specified that the letters would be embargoed for fifty years after both of their deaths, and the Princeton Library staff needed a few months to prepare them. The day the Hale letters were opened,
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that "he basically confesses his love for Emily Hale and tells her that she's the great love of his life", and "that he's been writing for her all of these years, and he even names the places in his poetry where he has paid tribute to her or honored her in some way". Eliot biographer
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Whittier-Ferguson, John, Dickey, Frances, Gordon, Lyndall, Fitzgerald, Sara, Stergiopoulou, Katerina, Christensen, Karen, Brooker, Jewel Spears, Cuda, Anthony, McIntire, Gabrielle, "Special Forum: First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive,"
148:. Her mother Emily (née Milliken) had become a "permanent mental invalid" after the death of her infant son. While some early Eliot biographers wrote that Hale was an orphan who was raised by her aunt and uncle, Edith and 631: 398:. Others believe it may have been a reaction to his unhappiness with Hale's decision to archive his letters for future release. After an initial review of the letters, Eliot scholar Frances Dickey told 167:(then College), where she had helped organize the drama club as a volunteer in 1916. She later was promoted to speech instructor at Simmons. She went on to serve as a speech and drama teacher at 128:
issued an unexpected statement that Eliot had prepared in 1960, to be opened when Hale's archives were released. Princeton then released Hale's summary of their relationship.
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The collection consists of approximately 1,131 letters and related enclosures by Eliot to Emily Hale (1891–1969), a teacher, actress, and secret muse to Eliot.
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could, so she was shocked and saddened when he changed his mind. After 1947, they continued to be friends, but their letters and visits were less frequent.
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Emily Hale Letters: free digital edition of the complete surviving correspondence between T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale
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Dickey, Frances and Fitzgerald, Sara, eds., "In Her Own Words: Emily Hale's Introduction to T. S. Eliot's Letters,
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made a vow: She would live to see the day a certain trove of T.S. Eliot's correspondence was unveiled.
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her flowers for her theatrical performances after he left. However, in June 1915, Eliot married
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have killed the poet in me; Vivienne nearly was the death of me, but she kept the poet alive".
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Fitzgerald, Sara, "The Love of Her Life: Emily Hale's Theatrical Career,"
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Fitzgerald, Sara, "Emily Hale: The Beginning of All Our Exploring,"
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Hale and Eliot spent the summers from 1935 to 1939 together in
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Hale was an active member of the Unitarian Church and also the
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Fitzgerald, Sara "Because You are You": Emily Hale's Letters,
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6: 1932–1933 1st Edition
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available to the public for free, online at tseliot.com
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preparatory schools at the end of her teaching career.
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The Poet's Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot
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The Poet's Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot
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Emily Hale Letters from T.S. Eliot (mostly 1931–1940)
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Princeton University Library (PUL) Manuscripts News
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Houghton Library
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Chipping Campden
Miss Porter's School
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Burnt Norton
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